Definitionen
1.NounPhysical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
2.NounA cause of such discomfort.
3.NounSerious danger.
4.NounAn aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
5.NounA seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
6.NounThe thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
7.VerbTo cause strain or anxiety to someone.
8.VerbTo retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
9.VerbTo treat a new object to give it an appearance of age."a pair of distressed jeans; She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room."