n. - Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
n. - That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
n. - A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
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.
n. - The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
n. - To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
n. - To compel by pain or suffering.
n. - To seize for debt; to distrain.