2. distress anything that causes anxiety, pain, or sorrow.
3. distress a state of extreme necessity, trouble, or misfortune.
4. distress the state of a ship or airplane requiring immediate assistance, as when on fire in transit.
5. distress the legal seizure and detention of another's goods as security for debt, etc.; a distraint.
6. (v.t.)distress to afflict with pain, anxiety, or sorrow; trouble; worry.
7. distress to subject to pressure or strain: to be distressed by excessive work.
8. distress to compel by pain or force of circumstances.
9. distress to scratch or stain (furniture, wood, etc.) so as to give an appearance of age.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME destresse < AF distresse, destresse, OF &indirdesc; L district(us) (see district ))
Definition of 'DISTRESS'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)distress, hurt, suffering psychological suffering "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
2. (noun)distress a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
3. (noun)distress extreme physical pain "the patient appeared to be in distress"
4. (verb)distress, distraint 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"
5. (verb)straiten, distress bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
6. (verb)distress cause mental pain to "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
Sense: great sorrow, trouble or pain She was in great distress over his disappearance; Is your leg causing you any distress?; The loss of all their money left the family in acute distress.
Definitions of DISTRESS 
Afrikaans: droefheid, nood, ellende,
Arabic: كَرَب، حُزْن، غَم
Bulgarian: беда
Brazilian: sofrimento
Czech: úzkost; bolest; bída
German: die Qual
Danish: sorg; bekymring; smerte; 
Greek: θλίψη, πόνος, οδύνη
Spanish: aflicción
Estonian: ahastus, häda
Farsi: درماندگی؛ رنج
Finnish: kärsimys
French: détresse
Hebrew: צָעַר, סֶבֶל, כְּאֵב
Hindi: दु:ख, व्यथा
Croatian: jad, nevolja
Hungarian: gyötrelem, aggodalom
Indonesian: sedih
Icelandic: kvöl, þjáning, neyð
Italian: angoscia
Japanese: 悩み
Korean: 고통
Lithuanian: sielvartas,širdgėla
Latvian: bēdas; ciešanas; posts
Malay: kedukaan
Dutch: leed, pijn
Norwegian: fortvilelse, bedrøvelse, 
Polish: zmartwienie, cierpienie
Persian: درماندگی؛ رنج
Pashto: غم، زړتنګى، لاس تنګى، نيس
Portuguese: sofrimento
Romanian: suferinţă
Russian: огорчение; горе
Slovak: starosť; ťažkosť
Slovenian: velikažalost; stiska
Serbian: neprilika
Swedish: bedrövelse, smärta, trång
Thai: ความเศร้าโศก; ความยุ่งยาก
Turkish: acı, ıstırap
Taiwanese: 悲痛
Ukrainian: горе, страждання
Urdu: سخت اذیت ، غم
Vietnamese: nỗi đau buồn
Chinese: 悲痛
