Tra từ distress - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. psychological suffering (Freq. 4)
- the death of his wife caused him great distress
• Syn:
hurt, suffering
• Derivationally related forms:
suffer (for: suffering), hurt (for: hurt)
• Hypernyms:
pain, painfulness
• Hyponyms:
anguish, torment, torture, self-torture, self-torment,
tsoris, wound
2. a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) (Freq. 3)
- a ship in distress
- she was the classic maiden in distress
• Hypernyms:
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
• Hyponyms:
anguish, pressure, throe
3. extreme physical pain
- the patient appeared to be in distress
• Hypernyms:
pain, hurting
4. 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
• Syn:
distraint
• Hypernyms:
seizure

II - verb

1. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
• Syn:
straiten
• Hypernyms:
trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode,
incommode, bother
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
2. cause mental pain to
- The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
• Hypernyms:
disturb, upset, trouble
• Hyponyms:
besiege
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will distress him