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▸ 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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great,
respiratory,
emotional,
psychological,
economic,
fetal,
financial,
mental,
much,
acute,
severe
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