distress

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Editorial note

However, "body image distress" is real and it even drives people to suicide [1].

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Quick take

psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of distress gathered in one view.

noun

psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

noun

a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"

noun

extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for distress.

noun

psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

noun

a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"

noun

extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"

noun

the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"

verb

bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

verb

cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

Example sentences

However, "body image distress" is real and it even drives people to suicide [1].

And maybe in the future, the dots will connect and this information will help me improve the lives of such people in distress.

Unless you can invoke something like Mnchausen syndrome, you have to treat these people or their charges in some way if they are in distress.

Otherwise, someone will be unhappy and most probably this one will be a child that has no way to express the immensity of its distress.

It describes a particular, unique phenomenon where creepy guys on the Internet rush to the "chivalrous" defence of a damsel in distress.

Abed too has trouble reading sarcasm and emotion, he has obsessions with routine and structure as well and disruptions in routine cause him considerable distress.

So that phrase, that's something you would only say under extreme distress when you had maximal desire to offend me, or I suppose you could use it jokingly between friends, but neither you nor I generally talk that way.

Specifically, pursuant to this interpretation, an unauthorized intentional monitoring of a cellular phone call could be lawful should the content of the communication relate to vehicles or persons in distress, but unlawful otherwise.

And you know maybe that's a problem we should take seriously.>Despite these feelings of difference, we find that male students report less distress, are less affected by the perceived difference between themselves and their peers, and leave the major in smaller proportion; and despite resistance to total absorption in computing, they do not feel like frauds.

I don't really hang out in environments where they're easy to obtain anymore, but if I ever find myself in one, even though I know on some rational level that I'd never touch them again, part of me is in great distress because I'd have a hard time saying no if they were offered to me.\nI think these types of articles tend to ignore the longer-lasting, psychologically debilitating consequences of addiction.