📖 Definitions of "Distresses"
noun
- 1
(Cause of) discomfort.
- 2
Serious danger.
- 3
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- 4
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
verb
- 1
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- 2
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- 3
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
"She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room."
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