dis*tress
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. [1913 Webster]
Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. [1913 Webster]
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress.— Burns.[1913 Webster]
3.A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. [1913 Webster]
4.(Law) (a) 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. (b) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. --Bouvier. --Kent. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.— Blackstone.[1913 Webster]
Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.
Syn: Affliction; suffering; pain; agony; misery; torment; anguish; grief; sorrow; calamity; misfortune; trouble; adversity. See Affliction. [1913 Webster]
1.To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. [1913 Webster]
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.— 2 Cor. iv. 8.[1913 Webster]
2.To compel by pain or suffering. [1913 Webster]
Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.— A. Hamilton.[1913 Webster]
3.(Law) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Syn: To pain; grieve; harass; trouble; perplex; afflict; worry; annoy. [1913 Webster]