distress
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
psychological suffering
the death of his wife caused him great distress
Types & categories
- painfulness hypernym
- torture hyponym
- self-torture hyponym
- tsoris hyponym
- wound hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
Types & categories
- inconvenience hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
a ship in distress
Types & categories
Sense 4 verb
cause mental pain to
The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- distress derivation
Sense 5 noun
extreme physical pain
the patient appeared to be in distress
Types & categories
- pain hypernym
Sense 6 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
Types & categories
- seizure hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hurt |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suffer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | distress |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hurt |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | painfulness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | torture |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | self-torture |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tsoris |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wound |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | inconvenience |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | hardship |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | anguish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pressure |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | throe |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | distress |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | trouble |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | besiege |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | pain |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | seizure |