distress

distress is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
2. noun. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
3. noun. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
4. 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.
5. noun. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
6. noun. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
7. noun. To compel by pain or suffering.
8. noun. To seize for debt; to distrain.
9. noun. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

   "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

10. noun. psychological suffering

    "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

    Synonyms: hurt, suffering

11. noun. extreme physical pain

    "the patient appeared to be in distress"

12. noun. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

    "a ship in distress"

    "she was the classic maiden in distress"

13. verb. cause mental pain to

    "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

14. verb. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

    Synonyms: straiten

Synonyms

distraint, hurt, suffering, straiten

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in distress:

disserts

Common word forms

distressed, distresses, distressful, distressing

Words from these letters

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