The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed.

The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. A distress of household goods shall be impounded under cover. If the lessor does not find sufficient distress on the premises.

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

Affliction; calamity; misery. On earth distress of nations. Luke 27:25.

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

To pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; applied to the body or the mind.

To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable. Distress not the Moabites. Deuteronomy 2:9. We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. 2 Corinthians 4:8.

To compel by pain or suffering. There are men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty .