Distress vs. Duress

Distress and Duress Definitions
Distress
To cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to.
Duress
Compulsion by threat or violence; coercion
Confessed under duress.
Distress
To mar or otherwise treat (an object or fabric, for example) to give the appearance of an antique or of heavy prior use.
Duress
Constraint or difficulty caused by misfortune
"children who needed only temporary care because their parents were ill, out of work, or under some other form of duress" (Stephan O'Connor).
Distress
(Archaic) To constrain or overcome by harassment.
Duress
A fraud achieved through the use of a threat or compulsion
She had a cause of action for duress. His claim was based on duress.
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Distress
Anxiety or mental suffering.
Duress
A criminal defense for an act undertaken under threat of serious bodily harm
His defense was duress.
Distress
Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury
Respiratory distress.
Duress
Forcible confinement.
Distress
Physical deterioration, as of a highway, caused by hard use over time
Pavement distress.
Duress
(obsolete) Harsh treatment.
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Distress
The condition of being in need of immediate assistance
A motorist in distress.
Duress
Constraint by threat.
Distress
Suffering caused by poverty
Programs to relieve public distress.
Duress
(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.
Distress
(Law) The act of distraining or seizing goods to compel payment or other satisfaction for a debt or other duty owed; distraint.
Duress
To put under duress; to pressure.
Someone was duressing her.
The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
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Distress
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Duress
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Distress
A cause of such discomfort.
Duress
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.
Distress
Serious danger.
Duress
To subject to duress.
Distress
(medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
Duress
Compulsory force or threat;
Confessed under duress
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