HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of DISTRESS products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | dihstreh's |
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| Rhymes | ABS, abscess, access, and 73 more rhymes in ehs... |
| Meaning | Psychological suffering. |
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| Examples | "the death of his wife caused him great distress" |
| Synonyms | hurt, suffering |
| Broader | pain, painfulness |
| Narrower | anguish, torment, torture; self-torture, self-torment; tsoris; wound |
| Verbs | distress |
| Meaning | A state of adversity (danger or affliction or need). |
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| Examples | "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" |
| Broader | adversity, hardship, hard knocks |
| Narrower | anguish; pressure; throe |
| Meaning | Extreme physical pain. |
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| Examples | "the patient appeared to be in distress" |
| Broader | pain, hurting |
| Meaning | The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim. |
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| Examples | "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" |
| Synonyms | distraint |
| Broader | seizure |
| Meaning | Cause mental pain to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
| Model | The bad news will distress him |
| Examples | "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother" |
| Broader | disturb, upset, trouble |
| Narrower | besiege |
| Nouns | distress |
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