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General (33 matching dictionaries)

1. distress: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. distress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. distress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. distress: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. distress: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. distress, distress: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Distress, distress: Wordnik [home, info]
8. distress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. distress: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. distress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. distress: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. distress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. distress: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. distress: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. distress: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. distress: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. distress: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
18. Distress (law), Distress (medicine), Distress (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. distress: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. Distress: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
21. distress: Free Dictionary [home, info]
22. distress: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
23. distress: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
24. distress: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
25. distress: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
26. distress: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
27. distress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
28. Distress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
29. distress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
30. Distress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
31. distress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

32. distress: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]

Business (10 matching dictionaries)

33. distress: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
34. Distress: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
35. distress: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
36. distress: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
37. DISTRESS: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
38. Distress (law), distress: Legal dictionary [home, info]
39. Distress (law): Financial dictionary [home, info]
40. distress: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
41. distress: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
42. Distress: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

43. distress: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)

44. Distress: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info]
45. distress: online medical dictionary [home, info]
46. distress: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
47. distress: Medical dictionary [home, info]
48. Distress: Reactive Attachment Disorder [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

49. Distress: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
50. DISTRESS: Acronym Finder [home, info]
51. DISTRESS: Masonic Dictionary [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

52. distress: Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary [home, info]

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

53. distress: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (distress) ▸ noun:  the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim ("Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien") ▸ noun:  psychological suffering ("The death of his wife caused him great distress") ▸ noun:  extreme physical pain ("The patient appeared to be in distress") ▸ noun:  a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) ("A ship in distress") ▸ verb:  cause mental pain to ("The news of her child's illness distressed the mother") ▸ Also see distressingly ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to distress ▸ Usage examples for distress ▸ Idioms related to distress (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing distress ▸ Words that often appear near distress ▸ Rhymes of distress ▸ Invented words related to distress