Distress /(?)/

1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

   Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress.

2. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

   Affliction's sons are brothers in distress.

3. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
4. 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. (Law)

   If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.

   The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.

imp. & p. p. Distressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Distressing

1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

   We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.

2. To compel by pain or suffering.

   Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.

3. To seize for debt; to distrain. (Law)