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— English words —

• distress n. Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
• distress n. A cause of such discomfort.
• distress n. Serious danger.
• distress n. (Medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
• distress n. (Law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
• distress n. (Law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
• distress v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
• distress v. (Law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
• distress v. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

— English words, defined in German —

• distress S. Die Qual, die Pein, der Schmerz.
• distress S. Das Leid, der Kummer, die Sorge.
• distress S. Das Elend, die Not, die Notlage.
• distress S. Schifffahrt: die Seenot.
• distress S. Rechtswissenschaft: die Beschlagnahme, eine mit Beschlag belegte Sache.
• distress V. Quälen, peinigen, bedrücken, beunruhigen, betrüben.

— English words, defined in French —

• distress n. Détresse.
• distress n. (Marine) (Aéronautique) Perdition.
• distress n. Stress négatif, mauvais stress (par opposition à eustress).
• distress v. Contrister, peiner.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• distress s. Angustia, aflicción.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• distress s. Distúrbio.
• distress s. (Direito) embargo.
• distress s. Infortúnio.
• distress s. Perigo.
• distress s. Pesar.
• distress s. Algo penhorado.
• distress s. Angústia.
• distress s. Pobreza.
• distress v. Angustiar.
• distress v. Importunar; perseguir.
• distress v. Embargar.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• distress s. Dolore, sofferenza, afflizione, angoscia.
• distress s. Emergenza, pericolo, difficoltà.
• distress s. Miseria, indigenza, bisogno, difficoltà.
• distress s. Esaurimento, spossatezza.
• distress s. (Diritto) sequestro.
• distress s. Logorio, deperimento materiale.
• distress s. Addolorare, affliggere, angosciare.
• distress s. Stremata, estenuata, spossata.

54 English words from 9 English definitions

acute adapt against age alarm anxiety appearance aversive cannot cause danger debt discomfort distrain distraining emotional force fully give Law legal Medicine more nature new object of␣a of␣age particularly payment person Physical process procure property retain satisfaction seized seizing Serious someone state strain stress such suffering taken that the The␣thing thing treat which without

15 English words from 30 foreign definitions

Algo Das der die embargo eustress Marine Not opposition par Pein Perdition Perigo Qual stress

58 foreign words from 30 foreign definitions

Aéronautique afflizione aflicción angoscia Angústia Angustiar bedrücken belegte Beschlag Beschlagnahme betrüben beunruhigen bisogno Contrister Détresse difficoltà Direito Diritto Distúrbio Dolore eine Elend Embargar Emergenza Esaurimento estenuata Importunar indigenza Infortúnio Kummer Leid Logorio materiale mauvais Miseria mit négatif Notlage par␣opposition␣à peiner peinigen penhorado pericolo perseguir Pesar Pobreza Quälen Rechtswissenschaft Sache Schifffahrt Schmerz Seenot sequestro sofferenza Sorge spossata spossatezza Stremata

24 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

distressed distresser distresses distressers distressest distresseth distressful distressing distressedly distressfull distress␣sale distressfully distressingly distress␣sales distressedness distressed␣sale distress␣signal distressed␣sales distressfulness distressingness distress␣signals distress␣purchase distress␣purchases distress␣merchandise

7 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

undistressed undistresses nondistressed predistressed pre-distressed undistressful undistressing

7 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

undistress predistress postdistress abuse␣of␣distress damsel␣in␣distress damsels␣in␣distress respiratory␣distress

35 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

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17 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ert ERT ERTs rts RTs RTS ser SER ser. SERT SERTs sid Sid SID sid' SSE TSI

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

disserts

7 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

desisters desistors disasters disastres dressiest dress␣suit drossiest

8 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

desists dissert disters redists resists sisters Sisters strides

5 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

destress de-stress distrest mistress Mistress

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