Synonym: afflict, agonize, bother, disturb, hurt, pain, torment, torture, trouble, upset. Antonym: comfort, consolation, relief, solace. Similar words: stress, actress, district, distract, distribute, distribution, streak, stream. Meaning: [dɪ'stres] n. 1. psychological suffering 2. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) 3. extreme physical pain 4. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim. v. cause mental pain to.
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91. The sun became relentlessly hot, adding dehydration to my distress.
92. But there is one issue that confronts the Grammy Award-winning musician almost everywhere he goes -- much to his distress.
93. The analytical glint was there now, oddly mixed with her distress.
94. Services should also aim to enhance the individual's own ability to cope with distress.
95. The best documented measure of severity was a simple classification based on each patient's initial state of distress on presentation.
96. In their distress, factories and workers engage in barter in a desperate effort to survive.
97. Sometimes I seemed to be nothing but grievance and distress, like a human storm looking for something to deluge.
98. The defendants accepted that damages could be awarded for mental distress and that the wife actually suffered mental distress.
99. Secondly, admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission.
100. They would show signs of acute distress, crying loudly and vigorously.
101. The resident's doctor may have prescribed pain killers or drugs to relieve distress.
102. They were causing distress to the firm's staff and amounted to a nuisance.
103. The 499 ton salvage tug then sent out a Mayday distress call to the effect that she was on fire and sinking.
104. But it was not economic distress that precipitated the present crisis.
105. There is therefore the potential for personal distress if anything goes wrong.
106. Decision-making, by considering alternative responses to their social, distress,[www.Sentencedict.com] leading to new forms of social performance.
107. When there are limits on borrowing, a company or household in financial distress has to survive on cash flow.
108. In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress.
109. Result: carnage averted but father left in state of deep physical and nervous distress.
110. Even if the means could be found, there were reasons why they might never attempt to beam a distress signal into space.
111. And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end.
112. When he pinches his baby brother he seems indifferent to the infant's distress.
113. Such mental distress is only possible for beings capable of comparing one chapter of their lives with another.
114. The Home Office tried to ban the interview on the grounds it might cause distress to relatives of Nilsen's victims.
115. Similarly[sentencedict.com], bankers become committed to a customer if they can not withdraw facilities without causing that customer financial distress.
116. There was every reason, apart from the unexpectedness of the news, why this should have given Eliot the greatest distress.
117. Hilda seemed to be getting more animated as her own bafflement and distress increased.
118. The State must act in relieving distress, for private charity and a change of heart among the rich are not enough.
119. And as well as the injury caused by hooking, they suffer distress from being hauled out of the water and handled.
120. But while participation on business teams can offer enormous psychic satisfactions, it can also cause great distress.
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