Distress

Definition: Distress

Distress

Noun

1. Psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress".

2. A state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress".

3. Extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress".

4. The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim.

Verb

1. Cause mental pain to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "distress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Building & Civil Engineering

Business

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Distress

Alarm

Noun: alarm; alarum, larum, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle.

Pain

Sadden; make unhappy; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash, afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.

Concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.

Poverty

Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

Taking

Dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction.

Crosswords: Distress

The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

I'm a damsel, I'm in distress I can handle this (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

What are these principal sins that distress your mother (Rob Roy; writing credit: Alan Sharp)

As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we'll be there (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

A international code of distress (The Last Castle; writing credit: David Scarpa)

Ladies in Distress (1966)

Doctor in Distress (1963)

Ladies in Distress (1938)

Woman in Distress (1937)

A Damsel in Distress (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Damsel in Distress (reference)

• Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy: A Complete Guide to Predicting & Avoiding Distress and Profiting from Bankruptcy (Wiley Finance Edition) (reference)

• Predator Calling With Gerry Blair: The Definitive Book Dealing With Distress Screaming to Bring Predators and Other Wild Things Close to the Eye, the (reference)

• Stress Without Distress (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Social Distress And The Homeless (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Original Dirty Pair - Damsels in Distress (Vol. 2) (reference)

• Doctor in Distress (reference)

• Visual Distress Signals (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Angels of Distress (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

America triumphant and Britannia in distress. Credit: Library of Congress.

The porters who detect instantly the presence of sweet coin but have no eyes for signals of distress. Credit: Library of Congress.

China in distress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Distress / James E. Allen. Credit: Library of Congress.

The old sow in Distress, or the country parsons return from tithing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

The aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall have full liberty of passage and landing over and in the territory and territorial waters of Germany, and shall enjoy the same privileges as German aircraft, particularly in case of distress by land or sea. (reference)

Now, at this sad and breathless moment, we are plunged in the hunger and distress which are the aftermath of our stupendous struggle; but this will pass and may pass quickly, and there is no reason except human folly or sub-human crime which should deny to all the nations the inauguration and enjoyment of an age of plenty. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It would only be giving trouble and distress.

She had a vague feeling that she was on the eve of falling into distress, of slipping into the street

Although neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily known, for the people saw the distress I was in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Crohn's disease is not caused by emotional distress. (references)

This also seems to be true for psychological distress. (references)

At times, pain, bending, and emotional distress prohibit sexual intercourse. (references)

Children

Luxembourg

The Government's hot line for young persons in distress received 641 calls during the year. (references)

Gambia

The care and welfare of children in distress is considered primarily a family responsibility. (references)

India

The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has set up a 24-hour "child help line" phone-in service for children in distress in nine cities. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

A shortage of fodder has led to distress slaughtering, raising questions about the adequacy of herds to feed the domestic population. (references)

Japan

To promote the rational and flexible rehabilitation of the business and economic activities of debtors in distress, the Civil Reconstruction Law was enacted and went into force in April 2000. This bankruptcy law replaces the Composition Law and provides improved protection of debtor assets prior to the start of rehabilitation procedures, eased requirements for beginning rehabilitation procedures, simplified and rationalized procedures for the examination and determination of liabilities, improved procedures for approval of rehabilitation plans. (references)

Thailand

Organizations worth checking for this type of information are the Stock Exchange of Thailand, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . Each has their own data bank with mandatory collected information that all listed firms need to report on a quarterly and/or annual basis . For information related to companies under financial distress or under rehabilitation, the CDRAC (Corporate Debt Restructuring Advisory Committee), an organization set up by the Bank of Thailand, can be contacted to find out which companies are involved in on-going debt restructuring/rehabilitation or litigation. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

The department set up a "fund for women in distress and detention" and a "relief and revolving fund" for victims of human rights violations. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

In 2001, Korean economic conditions continued to worsen due to the triple distress of weakened global economic conditions (and related falls in Korea's exports), a severe slump in microchip/computer demand and prices, and low levels of Korean corporate fixed investment. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Nigerian police may not always inform U.S. authorities of an American citizen in distress and victims may not always have the opportunity to communicate for assistance since they may be sequestered under highly controlled conditions. (references)

Women

Pakistan

A crisis center for women in distress was opened in 1988 by the Progress Women's Association (PWA) in Rawalpindi. (references)

Venezuela

The second is the Women's Shelters Program, a series of centers being built to receive, care for, and rehabilitate women in distress. (references)

Luxembourg

Information offices set up to respond to women in distress reported that they received 3,724 telephone calls in 2000, a decrease from 1999 levels. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Boards outside the NCR exempted some employers because of factors such as establishment size, industry sector, involvement with exports, financial distress, and level of capitalization. (references)

Sweden

Law enforcement primarily uses laws against pandering and an offense called "placing in distress," which can be used in cases where traffickers lure women from other countries under false pretenses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In tribulation or distress

Expressions using "distress": "adult respiratory distress syndrome" ♦ Abuse of distress ♦ adult respiratory distress syndrome ♦ be in distress ♦ cry of distress ♦ dire distress ♦ distress call ♦ distress communication ♦ distress frequency ♦ distress message ♦ distress oneself ♦ distress phase ♦ distress rocket ♦ distress signal ♦ distress smb. ♦ Fetal Distress ♦ fire off a distress signal ♦ foetal distress ♦ in distress ♦ in time of distress ♦ respiratory distress ♦ respiratory distress syndrome ♦ respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn ♦ two in distress make sorrow less. Additional references.

Beginning with "distress": distress-gun.

Afrikaans

behoeftigheid (destitution, indigence, need, penury), bedroewe (afflict, cause, cause pain, cause pain to, give, give pain to, grieve), bedroef (afflict, cause, cause pain, cause pain to, give, give pain to, grieve). (various references)

Albanian

dhimbje (ache, agony, anguish, dolor, dolour, grip, heartache, misery, pain, sorrow, sympathy, throe), vuajtje (affliction, agony, anguish, cross, dolor, dolour, gyp, hardship, martyrdom, misery, pain, rack, suffering, torment, tribulation), tensionoj (strain, stress, stretch), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), rrezik (chance, danger, fear, hazard, imminence, impendence, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, riskiness), pikëlloj (afflict, damp, depress, sadden), hidhëroj (afflict, aggrieve, chagrin, deject, disappoint, discompose, embitter, grieve, make miserable, make trouble), gjendje e dëshpëruar (blues), fatkeqësi (accident, adversity, bane, calamity, casualty, disaster, doom, evil, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misery, misfortune, plague, teen, tribulation, woe), ankth (anguish, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, dismay, fuss, incubus, inquietude, jitters, nervosity, night-hag, nightmare, obsession, overanxiety, trepidation, uneasiness, unrest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حجز على الاموال, ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏ألم (ache, hurt, infirmity, inflict, misery, pain, smart, soreness, sufferance, suffering, wrench), ‏إمتحن بمصيبة, ‏الضراء (sorrow, trouble), ‏الحجز على الأموال, ‏ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, rattle, saddle, torment), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏عوز (destitution, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation, want), ‏فتنة شغب أو محنة (commotion, disorder, tumult, unrest), ‏حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), ‏وجع (ache, ail, fell, gripe, inflict, pain, soreness, wrench), ‏مصيبة (adversity, affliction, blow, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, misfortune, ordeal, scourge, trial, tribulation, woe), ‏محنة (adversity, affliction, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, misfortune, ordeal, trial, tribulation, woe), ‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏كرب (agony, anguish, sorrow), ‏عسر (difficulty, poverty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умора (fatigue, lassitude, weariness), опечалявам (afflict, grieve, sadden, vex), нужда (call, destitution, hardship, necessary, necessity, need, pinch, privation, requirement, use, want), нещастие (accident, adversity, affliction, buffet, desolation, evil, fatality, hard luck, infelicity, misery, misfortune, sorrow, stroke, trouble, unhappiness), наскърбявам (be rude, hurt, wrong), нищета (beggary, degradation, deprivation, destitution, extremity, indigence, misery, necessity, poverty), бедствие (adversity, affliction, calamity, curse, disaster, evil), беда (adversity, bale, disaster, hardship, infelicity, infliction, mischief, misfortune, plight, stroke, teen, trouble, woe), покрусвам (afflict, break smb.'s heart, desolate, mortify), изтощение (depletion, enervation, exhaustion, fag, fatigue, frazzle, lassitude, prostration, strain, weariness), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изземване (expropriation, impressment), изземвам (distrain, expropriate, impress, recapture, take over). (various references)

Chinese 

難 (difficult, difficulty, disaster, not good, problem, to scold), 苦惱 (ail, annoy, distressed, to be in misery, vexation), 肄 (descendants, practice), 瘼 (sickness), 困厄 (Distressed, Distressing), 困 (doze off, sleepy). (various references)

Czech

zarmoutit (sadden, upset), zármutek (bereavement, chagrin, grief, pain, regret, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), utrpení (affliction, calvary, hardship, suffering), tíseò (oppression, straits), nouze (deprivation, destitution, indigence, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, privation, scarcity, want), nesnáz (grievance, hiccup, inconvenience, predicament), úzkost (alarm, anguish, anxiety, apprehension, care, heartache, worry), útrapy (anguish, suffering). (various references)

Danish

salg af håndpantsatte effekter (distraint, forced sale of collaterals), realisation af håndpantsatte effekter (distraint, forced sale of collaterals), noedsituation (emergency), nød (nut, pellet). (various references)

Dutch

droevig stemmen (afflict, grieve), verdrieten (afflict, annoy, grieve, vex, worry), smarten (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to), pauperisme (destitution, indigence, need, penury), nood (danger, misery, need, peril, want), grieven (abuse, afflict, annoy, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to, grieve, insult, offend, vex, worry), executoriaal beslag (distraint, forced sale of collaterals), behoeftigheid (destitution, indigence, need, penury), bedroeven (afflict, annoy, cause pain, cause pain to, chagrin, give pain to, grieve, vex, worry). (various references)

Esperanto

tristigi (afflict, grieve), senhaveco (destitution, indigence, need, penury), malĝojigi (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to). (various references)

Farsi 

پریشانی (Baffle, Bother, Depression, Dolor, Nonplus, Ramble, Remorse, Turmoil, Woe), محنت زده کردن , محنت (Bale, Hardship, Pain, Toil, Tribulation), مضطرب کردن (Alarm, Upset), تنگدستی , اندوه (Chagrin, Dole, Dolor, Grief, Heartache), درد (Agony, Ailment, Pain, Pang, Shoot). (various references)

Finnish

tuska (agony, anguish, fear, pain, torment), merihätä (peril at sea), hätätila (fib, white lie), hätä (anxiety, danger, hurry, trouble), hädänalainen asema, ahdinkotila (predicament, straitened circumstances, straits). (various references)

French

détresse. (various references)

Frisian

fertriette (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to). (various references)

German

not (affliction, destitution, difficulty, emergency, hardship, misery, necessity, need, neediness, penury, poverty, pressure, privation, problem, trouble, want), elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness), betrüben (afflict, annoy, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to, grieve, gripe, sadden, vex, worry), bedrängnis (affliction, oppression, torment). (various references)

Greek 

θλίψη (affliction, chagrin, dolor, dolour, grief, regretfulness, sadness, sorriness). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחץ (compulsion, duress, force, oppression, press, pressure, stress), טרדנות (bother, trouble, troubling), טרדה (bother, concern, discomfort, hassle, nuisance), דאבה (anguish, anxiety, grief, sadness, sorrow), דחקות (poverty), איד (calamity, disaster, misfortune, trouble), עגמה (anguish, grief, sorrow), צוקה (oppression, trouble), להדאיב (cause sorrow, make sad, sadden), מתלאה (hardship, weariness), לעגם (cause sorrow, sadden), למרר (cause bitterness, embitter, grieve), מצור (besiegement, blockade, fortification, fortress, siege, straits), מצוק (pressure), מצוקה (adversity, hardship, misery, need, straits, stress), מועקה (burden, depression, heaviness, oppression), לצער (cause grief, grieve, sadden). (various references)

Hungarian

veszély (danger, hazard, imminence, jeopardy, lion in the path, lion in the way, menace, peril, risk), szorongás (anxiety, discomfort, flutter, phobia, press). (various references)

Indonesian

duka (grief, sorrow), sesal, mendukakan (distressing), kesengsaraan (adversity, agony, misery, suffering), kerusuhan (disturbance, riot, turbulence, unrest). (various references)

Italian

pericolo (danger, endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

苦衷, 苦悩 (affliction, agony, anguish, suffering, trouble), 苦渋 (affliction, bitterness, difficulty in understanding, mortification). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くちゅう, とたんのくるしみ (misery), ゆうく (apprehension, dread, fear, sorrow, trouble), ゆうかん (bravery, evening paper, gallantry, heroism, leisured, quiet and secluded, sorrow, worry), こんきゅう (poverty), こんなん (difficulty), いたみ (ache, bruise, damage, grief, pain, sore), うれい (gloomy, grief, sad, sorrow, unhappy), とたん (just, misery), うきめ (bitter experience, grief, hardship, misery, sad thoughts), きたい (anticipation, curious, danger, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, rare, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), くじゅう (affliction, bitter experience, bitterness, difficulty in understanding, mortification, ninety), くるしみ (anguish, hardship, pain, suffering), きゅうはく (financial difficulty, imminence, urgency), きゅうじょう (arched, baseball stadium, bow-shaped, hilltop, Imperial Palace, spherical, stage absence, theater closure, wretched condition), くのう (affliction, agony, anguish, suffering, trouble), なやみ (agony, anguish, problem, trouble, worry), きなん (danger, hazard, peril), うれいごと (bitter experience, grief, misery, sad thoughts). (various references)

Korean 

고민 (Worrying). (various references)

Manx

seaghnaghey (afflict, aggrieve, grieve, trouble), meegherjagh (discomfort, disconsolate, uncomfortableness), gaue (danger, jeopardy, peril, risk), cur trimshey er (sadden), chennid (drive, narrowness, press, strain, tension, tightness), arkys (affliction, difficulty, hardship, misfortune, need). (various references)

Norwegian

nød (destitution), bekymring, bekymre. (various references)

Pig Latin

istressday.(various references)

Portuguese

perigo (difficulty, hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, threat). (various references)

Romanian

durea (ache, afflict, ail, be painful, grieve, hurt, pain, rankle, regret, shoot, smart, sting), mâhni (afflict, aggrieve, deject, desolate, grieve, pain, pique, sadden), întristare profundã, catastrofã (calamity, catastrophe, disaster), epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, use up, waste), extenua (drive, exhaust, outwork, overwork, pump, tire, try, waste), extenuare (break down), îndurera (afflict, aggrieve, grieve, kill, pain), lipsã de bani (impecuniosity), suferinţã (ache, agony, cross, endurance, hardship, heart ache, infliction, misery, pain, smart, suffering, trouble), mâhnire (affliction, desolation, despondency, dismay, grief, sadness, sorrow, trouble), mizerie (atrocity, beggary, depth, indigence, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, rod, scourge, sore, trouble), oprire momentalã a respiraţiei, situaţie grea (morass), istovire (exhaustion, fatigue). (various references)

Russian 

утомление (fatigue), терзать (drag, excruciate, lacerate), горе (dole, dolour, grief, misery, mourning, pain, sorrow, teen, tribulation, woe), огорчать (afflict, aggrieve, grieve), нужда (beggary, destitution, dire necessity, hardship, indigence, necessity, need, privation), несчастье (adversity, affliction, disaster, evil, fatality, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, teen, tribulation, unhappiness, woe, woes), недомогание (complaint, indisposition, malaise, queasiness), беспокоить авария;огорчение, бедствие (bale, bete noire, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, evil, plague, tribulation), причинять страдание, истощение (attenuation, attrition, consumption, debilitation, decrepitude, depletion, drain, emaciation, exhaustion, extenuation, goneness, inanition, leanness, tabescence). (various references)

Scottish

teinn (calamity, sickness, straits), léir (altogether, entirely, pain, perception, power of seeing or being seen : is, sight, torment, wholly), annrath, amhladh, airc (hardship, poverty), aimbeart (indigence, poverty, want), éiginn (compulsion : is éiginn domh, I, necessity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrinuti (concern, disturb, trouble, worry), tuga (affliction, grief, heartache, melancholy, ruth, sadness, sorrow), opasnost (danger, death trap, deathtrap, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk), oneraspoložiti (deject, depress, indispose), ojaditi, ožalostiti (afflict, aggrieve, bereave, grieve), nevolja (misfortune, packet, teen, trouble), nemaština (indigence, need, poverty), naneti bol (afflict), žalost (affliction, bereavement, chagrin, grief, mourning, regret, sorrow). (various references)

Spanish

afligir (afflict, aggrieve, ail, cause pain, cause pain to, depress, give pain to, grieve, rankle, trouble, try, vex), peligro (danger, eradication, hazard, jeopardy, nastiness, peril, riskiness), indigencia (destitution, indigence, misery, necessity, need, penury, poverty, want), entristecer (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to, grieve, sadden, shade), acongojar (anguish, grieve, upset, wring, wring out). (various references)

Swedish

sorg (care, concern, grief, heartache, heartbreak, mourning, pain, sadness, sorrow), smärta (ache, aggrieve, anguish, grief, hurt, pain, pang, smart, twinge, wrench), plåga (afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agony, ail, bedevil, bother, crucify, curse, excruciate, excruciation, fret, gall, harass, Harrow, Harry, infliction, jar, pain, pang, persecute, pester, pinch, plague, rack, ride, scourge, tear, terror, torment, torture, worry, wring), bedröva (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, give pain to, grieve, sadden). (various references)

Turkish

dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), tehlike (danger, emergency, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, shoal, storm cloud, threat), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), haczetmek (attach, confiscate, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, garnish, garnishee, impound, levy, seise, sequester, sequestrate, vest), haciz (attachment, confiscation, distraint, garnishment, levy, seizure, sequestration, vesting), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, fatality, fate, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), endişelendirmek (concern, disquiet, disturb, fret, keep in suspense, perturb, preoccupy, put the wind up smb., worry), el koymak (appropriate, arrest, attach, capture, commandeer, condemn, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, embargo, hold, impound, impress, levy, requisition, seise, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take the action, usurp, vest), acı vermek (afflict, be wormwood to, excruciate, Harrow, pinch), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry), ızdırap (affliction, agony, anguish, hurt, misery, pain, sting, suffering, torture). (various references)

Turkmen 

hasrat (trouble), gynamak (bring grief to). (various references)

Ukrainian

тиск (enforcement, plenum, press, pressure, weight), горе (affliction, calamity, grame, grief, rue, smart, tears, teen, woe), виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), завдавати горя, злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, indigence, misery, need, neediness, penury, privation), бідування, доводити до злиднів (beggar, depauperate, pauperize). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng mệt lả, nỗi đau khổ (alleviation, rack, smart, tribulation, woe), nỗi đau buồn (affliction, grief, heartache), nỗi đau đớn cảnh khốn cùng, cảnh túng quẫn, cảnh hiểm nguy tình trạng kiệt sức, cảnh hiểm nghèo (jeopardy), cảnh gieo neo tai hoạ. (various references)

Welsh

ing (agony, anguish), cyni (adversity, anguish), cyfyngdra (narrowness), cyfyngder (trouble). (various references)

aerumna, aerumnae, aerumnas, aerumnis, affligo, angebat, angustia, conturbo, difficultas, labor, labore, laborem, labores, laboribus, laboris, laborum, miseria, miseriae, miseriam, miserias, miseriis, negotia, negotii, negotiis, negotio, negotiorum, negotium, obductionis, tribulatio, tribulatione, tribulationem, tribulationes, tribulationi, tribulationibus, tribulationis. (various references)

sâdrâ. (various references)

nearones. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "distress": distressed, distresses, distressful, distressfully, distressfulness, distressfulnesses, distressing, distressingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Distress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diesters, disgress, disstress, disties, distrese, distresse, distresss, distri, Istres, Listress. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: disserts.

-1 letter: desists, dissert, resists, sisters, strides.

-2 letters: deists, desist, direst, disses, driest, resids, resist, sister, stress, stride.

-3 letters: deist, diets, dirts, dites, dress, drest, dries, edits, resid, rests, rides, rises, rites, sides, sired, sires, sises, sited, sites, stied, sties, stirs, tides, tiers, tired, tires, tress, tried, tries.

-4 letters: dies, diet, dire, dirt, diss, dite, dits.

+1 letter: disasters, dressiest, drossiest.

+2 letters: diestruses, dissectors, dissenters, distressed, distresses, editresses, shirtdress, sturdiness.

+3 letters: bastardises, crassitudes, dirtinesses, dispersants, disrespects, dissertates, dissipaters, distressful, distressing, semideserts, sidestrokes, sisterhoods, streamsides, tardinesses, tirednesses.

+4 letters: adroitnesses, diatessarons, directnesses, directresses, discreetness, discreteness, disinterests, dissertators, draftinesses, headmistress, nightdresses, outsiderness, shirtdresses, sidesteppers, spiritedness, standardises, stereopsides, stewardships, sturdinesses, tawdrinesses, topdressings, torridnesses, trendinesses, turbidnesses, turgidnesses.