Distress vs. Duress

To cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to.

Compulsion by threat or violence; coercion

To mar or otherwise treat (an object or fabric, for example) to give the appearance of an antique or of heavy prior use.

Constraint or difficulty caused by misfortune

(Archaic) To constrain or overcome by harassment.

A fraud achieved through the use of a threat or compulsion

Anxiety or mental suffering.

A criminal defense for an act undertaken under threat of serious bodily harm

Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury

Forcible confinement.

Physical deterioration, as of a highway, caused by hard use over time

(obsolete) Harsh treatment.

The condition of being in need of immediate assistance

Constraint by threat.

Suffering caused by poverty

(legal) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

(Law) The act of distraining or seizing goods to compel payment or other satisfaction for a debt or other duty owed; distraint.

To put under duress; to pressure.

Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.

Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

A cause of such discomfort.

The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.

Serious danger.

To subject to duress.

(medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

Compulsory force or threat;

(legal) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

(legal) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

(legal) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.

To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

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.

To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

To compel by pain or suffering.

To seize for debt; to distrain.

Psychological suffering;

A state of adversity (danger or affliction or need);

Extreme physical pain;

The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim;

Cause mental pain to;