distress
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Is distress a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.Antonyms: eustresscountableuncountable
2. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.countableuncountable
3. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.Examples: "This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm."Synonyms: distrain
Definition source: Wiktionary