DISTRESS

Distress

In medicine, distress is an aversive state in which a person is unable to adapt completely to stressors and their resulting stress and shows maladaptive behaviors. It can be evident in the presence of various phenomena, such as inappropriate social interaction .

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distress

Noun

  1. (Cause of) discomfort.
  2. Serious danger.
  3. A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
  4. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Verb

  1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
  2. To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
  3. To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.
    She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.


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