Distress vs. Impairment: What's the Difference?

To cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to.

To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish, as in quality

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

The result of being impaired

(Archaic) To constrain or overcome by harassment.

A deterioration or weakening

Anxiety or mental suffering.

A disability or handicap

Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury

An inefficient part or factor.

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

(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

The condition of being in need of immediate assistance

The state, act, or process of being impaired; injury.

Suffering caused by poverty

The occurrence of a change for the worse

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

A symptom of reduced quality or strength

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

The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness;

A cause of such discomfort.

Damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality

Serious danger.

The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)

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

(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;