Distress

Distress may refer to:

  • Distress (medicine), occurring when an individual cannot adapt to stress
  • Suffering
  • Distress signal, an internationally recognized means for obtaining help
  • Distressed inventory, an inventory of goods or materials whose potential to be sold at a normal cost has passed or will soon pass.
  • Distressing, making clothing, furniture and household objects look old
  • Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment
  • Distress (novel) a novel by Greg Egan

Famous quotes containing the word distress:

    “Two in distress ... make sorrow less.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “...those who marry will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that.”
    —Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 7:28.

    Paul.