Crossword-Solution: DISTRESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distress | n. | Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. |
| Distress | n. | That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. |
| Distress | n. | A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. |
| Distress | 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. |
| Distress | n. | The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. |
| Distress | n. | To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. |
| Distress | n. | To compel by pain or suffering. |
| Distress | n. | To seize for debt; to distrain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DISTRESS | anagram | DISSERTS |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DISTRESS (5)
Darling screamed, this time in distress for him, for she thought he was killed, and she ran down into the street to look for his little body, but it was not there; and she looked up, and in the black night she could see nothing but what she thought was a shooting star.
She ended weeping, and her lowlie plight, Immoveable till peace obtain’d from fault Acknowledg’d and deplor’d, in _Adam_ wraught Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so faire his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeas’d, his aide; As one disarm’d, his anger all he lost, And thus with peaceful words uprais’d her soon.
Let that monster go away and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat and a Bull.” It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
The dog, who now thoroughly understood her desire and her incapacity, was frantic in his distress on these occasions; he would tug at her dress and run forward.
Surely we pity thee and him alike Daughter of Oedipus, for your distress; But as we reverence the decrees of Heaven We cannot say aught other than we said.
Quotes with DISTRESS (3)
Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away…
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1957–2019).