distress
/dɪˈstɹɛs/ sustantivo C1En español: distrés, distress, desasosiego, sinvivir
- 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.
Plural distresses
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d’Épinay, “it is not, perhaps, the moment for Mademoiselle Valentine, who is in deep distress, to think of a husband; indeed, I fear——”
The two first dances, however, brought a return of distress: they were dances of mortification.
Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction; and a moment’s consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again, and tried to conceal, by incessant employment, the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion.
Bennet, and they gave way only to the greater distress of Mr.
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