Distress

The word distress has various meanings:-

Distress is a kind of suffering or stress. Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic Affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm
In medicine, distress is stress caused by adverse events. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the See also fetal distress, respiratory distress. In Medicine ( Obstetrics) fetal distress is the presence of signs in a pregnant woman&mdashbefore or during Childbirth &mdashthat the Fetus Respiratory failure is a medical term for inadequate Gas exchange by the Respiratory system.
In Maritime and Aircraft terms, distress is defined as "grave and imminent danger to life or person or vessel or aircraft, needing immediate assistance". Such a state is indicated by a mayday radio call. Mayday is an emergency Code word used internationally as a Distress signal in Voice procedure radio communications
Distress is also used by Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions. For the TV series of this title see Search and Rescue (TV series.
Distress can also refer to the process whereby materials are worn down by time and natural forces. Inventory is a list for goods and Materials, or those goods and materials themselves held available in stock by a Business.
Distressing in woodworking and the decorative arts is the art of making furniture and household objects look old. Distressing in the Decorative arts is the activity of making a piece of furniture or object appear aged and older and there are many methods to produce an appearance of age and
In law, distress, or distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized. Distraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed" especially in Common law
Distress is a novel by Greg Egan

Distress is a 1995 Science fiction Novel by Greg Egan ISBN 0061052647 A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction author.

Dictionary

-noun

(Cause of) discomfort.
Serious danger.
(law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

-verb

To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
(law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.

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