distress

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
2. (countable, uncountable) A cause of such discomfort.
3. (countable, uncountable) Serious danger.
4. (countable, uncountable) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
5. (countable, uncountable) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
6. (countable, uncountable) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Verb

1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
2. To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
3. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

Conceptos

dolor

afligir

pena

aflicción

angustia

entristecer

apuro

ansiedad

sufrimiento

situación de emergencia

acongojar

embargo

desconsolar

miseria

peligro

pesar

problema

tormento

tristeza

acoso

angustiar

congoja

escasez

estrechez

indigencia

infortunio

inquietud

pesadumbre

estres

estrés abiótico

estrés biótico

afán

factores físicos de estrés

afanarse

apenar

aprieto

atormentar

castigo

desgracia

disgustar

doler

enojar

💢

en serio peligro

esforzarse

inconforme

Opuesto a

eustress

Sinónimos

trouble

affliction

sorrow

pain

suffering

grief

hardship

misery

worry

anguish

afflict

upset

misfortune

torment

anxiety

agony

difficulty

grieve

sadden

sadness

woe

calamity

adversity

hurt

ache

soreness

poverty

disaster

illness

vexation

need

heartbreak

sickness

shock

⚡

concern

distrain

trial

bother

aggrieve

indigence

be depressed

danger

❗

make sad

distraint

annoy

care

plague

troubles

problem

wretchedness

Traducciones

douleur

Kummer

détresse

dolore

Qual

acı

πόνος

angoscia

peine

Not

dolor

Schmerz

bedroeven

Betrübnis

pijn

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɪˈstɹɛs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: distressen

Cognado con francés: détresse

Heredado de inglés medio: distresse

In summary

The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.