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Meanings of distress in English

Portuguese
sofrimento
Catalan
sofriment
Spanish
sufrimiento

Psychological suffering.

sofrimento
Spanish
embargo

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

embargo
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Examples for "distraint"
Examples for "distraint"
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All such distraint is represented as open robbery and pillage.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
2
If distraint were successful, people would refuse to buy the distrained property of their neighbors.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
3
Everything has been carried off under distraint for rent, so they said, who came here.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
4
When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
Madame Bovary
5
Within the twelvemonth, a distraint was levied upon him for non-payment of moneys that were owing.
Balzac
Russian
дистресс
Portuguese
distresse
Spanish
distrés

Difficult state in which a person is unable to completely adapt to stressors and their resulting stress and shows maladaptive behaviors.

дистресс

An unpleasant, usually localised physical sensation that is often the result of an injury, disease or other ailment.

Usage of distress in English
1
However, the distress level equalize and return baseline values beyond 12 weeks.
Pubmed
2
Objective: Diabetes distress among patients from ethnic minorities is still poorly understood.
Pubmed
3
The market is simply reflecting distress in the real world, analysts said.
Reuters
4
Survivors with higher information needs reported higher psychological distress and lower QoL.
Pubmed
5
We offend it in the decanting and distress it in the serving.
Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile / Being a Desultory Narrativ...
6
Purposes: Cancer-related distress is known to persist long after completion of treatment.
Pubmed
7
The spoliation will increase the distress; the distress will produce fresh spoliation.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
8
Results: Psychological interventions have intrinsic values in reducing patients' distress and sufferings.
Pubmed
9
Bull, stop growling; you are very impolite; the gentleman is in distress.
The Puppet Crown
10
He said education could help in periods of low unemployment and distress.
Radio NZ
11
The result of such a conversation is usually confusion; sometimes even distress.
The Guardian
12
The IDA also provides grants to countries at risk of debt distress.
The Guardian
13
Economic distress is most often the reason that fixers take the work.
The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
14
Presley apparently used to talk to his twin in times of distress.
The Guardian
15
Credit derivatives began signaling distress for banks earlier this week as well.
Reuters
16
That said, we saw little early signs of distress in financial markets.
Reuters
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Translations for distress
Catalan
sofriment
Distress through the time
Distress across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
New Zealand
Common
Australia
Common
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