Definitions:

1. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) noun
   • a ship in distress
2. cause mental pain to verb
   • I was distressed by the news of my grandparent's illness.
3. extreme physical pain noun
   • The patient appeared to be in distress.
4. psychological suffering noun
   • The death of their sibling caused them great distress.
5. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim noun
   • Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien

Synonyms:

• distraint
• hurt
• straiten
• suffering

NearBy Words:

• distressed
• distressful
• distressfully
• distressfulness
• distressing
• distressingly
• distressingness