distresses
noun
Meaning
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
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