distress
/dɪˈstɹɛs/ nom C1En français : détresse
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger. · a ship in distress
- An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Pluriel distresses
Dans la bibliothèque
d’Épinay, “it is not, perhaps, the moment for Mademoiselle Valentine, who is in deep distress, to think of a husband; indeed, I fear——”
It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to her, “Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.”
He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other.”
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