Destress vs. Distress
Destress and Distress Definitions
Destress
To relieve one's stress or tension; relax
"After days like that, she'd go home and de-stress by playing video games" (Kristin Henderson).
Distress
To cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to.
Destress
(transitive) To reduce the stresses in a material.
Distress
To mar or otherwise treat (an object or fabric, for example) to give the appearance of an antique or of heavy prior use.
Destress
(ambitransitive) To reduce the stress in oneself or another person.
Distress
(Archaic) To constrain or overcome by harassment.
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Destress
(transitive) To reduce emphasis.
Distress
Anxiety or mental suffering.
Destress
Reduce the emphasis
Distress
Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury
Respiratory distress.
Distress
Physical deterioration, as of a highway, caused by hard use over time
Pavement distress.
Distress
The condition of being in need of immediate assistance
A motorist in distress.
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Distress
Suffering caused by poverty
Programs to relieve public distress.
Distress
(Law) The act of distraining or seizing goods to compel payment or other satisfaction for a debt or other duty owed; distraint.
Distress
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Distress
A cause of such discomfort.
Distress
Serious danger.
Distress
(medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
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Distress
(legal) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
Distress
(legal) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Distress
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
Distress
(legal) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
Distress
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
A pair of distressed jeans
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
Distress
Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress.
Distress
That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress.
Distress
A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
Distress
The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.
The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.
Distress
To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
Distress
To compel by pain or suffering.
Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.
Distress
To seize for debt; to distrain.
Distress
Psychological suffering;
The death of his wife caused him great distress
Distress
A state of adversity (danger or affliction or need);
A ship in distress
She was the classic maiden in distress
Distress
Extreme physical pain;
The patient appeared to be in distress
Distress
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
Distress
Cause mental pain to;
The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
