Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is Distress - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Distressed; Distress (disambiguation); Distressing (disambiguation); Distress (film)
distress
I
n.
1)to feel; suffer distress
2) to alleviate, ease distress
3) deep, great, profound distress
4) economic, financial distress
5) distress at, over, with
6) to smb.'s distress (to our distress, her condition did not improve)
II
v. (R) it distressed me (to read) that a new epidemic had broken out
distress
(distresses, distressing, distressed)
1.
Distress is a state of extreme sorrow, suffering, or pain.
Jealousy causes distress and painful emotions.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Distress is the state of being in extreme danger and needing urgent help.
He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in N
3.
If someone or something distresses you, they cause you to be upset or worried.
The idea of Toni being in danger distresses him enormously.
VERB: V n
Distress
·noun To compel by pain or suffering.
II. Distress ·noun To seize for debt; to Distrain.
III. Distress ·noun The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
IV. Distress ·noun That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
V. Distress ·noun A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, ·etc.
VI. Distress ·noun Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
VII. Distress ·noun To cause pain or anguish to; to Pain; to oppress with calamity; to Afflict; to Harass; to make miserable.
VIII. Distress ·noun The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, ·etc.
Wikipedia
Distress
Distress may refer to:
- Distress (medicine), an aversive state in which a person shows maladaptive behaviors
- Mental distress (or psychological distress)
- Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment
- Distress (novel), a novel by Greg Egan
- Distress (1946 film), a 1946 French film
- Distress (1929 film), a 1929 French silent film
- Distress signal, an recognized means for obtaining help
- Distressed inventory, goods or materials whose potential to be sold at a normal cost has passed
- Distressing, the process of making an object appear aged
- Stone washing, a similar technique used on apparel
Examples of use of Distress
1. Distress calls He even installed a tape playing gull distress calls but these measures provided only temporary relief.
2. Among adults with serious psychological distress, 27.6 percent used an illicit drug in the past year compared with 11.8 percent among those without serious psychological distress.
3. Similarly, the rate of past month cigarette use was 40.8 percent among adults with serious psychological distress and 24.5 percent among adults without serious psychological distress.
4. But to their distress the baby was still clearly moving.
5. We apologise to Miss Alcock for any distress caused.