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Distress
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
(2):
(n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
(3):
(n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
(4):
(n.) 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):
(n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
(6):
(n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
(7):
(n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
(8):
(n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Distress'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/distress.html. 1828.
