distress

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.

   “At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.”

2. isim A cause of such discomfort.
3. isim Serious danger.

   “I immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress, and that they had some comrade, or some other ship in company, and fired these gun for signals of distress, and to obtain help.”

4. isim An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
5. isim A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
6. isim The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

   “If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.”

7. fiil To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

   “She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.”

8. fiil To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.

   “This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.”

9. fiil To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

   “a pair of distressed jeans”