Usually means: Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word distress:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. distress: Merriam-Webster
  2. distress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distress: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distress, distress: Wordnik
  7. distress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distress: Wiktionary
  9. distress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distress: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distress: Dictionary.com
  13. distress: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. distress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Distress (law), Distress (medicine), Distress (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. distress: Rhymezone
  17. distress: FreeDictionary.org
  18. distress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. distress: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. distress: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. distress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. Distress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. distress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  24. Distress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. distress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. distress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distress: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. distress: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. distress: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. distress: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Distress (law), distress: Legal dictionary
  8. Distress (law): Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. distress: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Distress: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. distress: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. distress: Medical dictionary
  6. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  7. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DISTRESS: Acronym Finder
  3. DISTRESS: Masonic Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distress: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See distressed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
noun:  A cause of such discomfort.
noun:  Serious danger.
noun:  (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
noun:  (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
noun:  (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
verb:  To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
verb:  (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
verb:  To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

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