To heighten his distress, he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount.
I immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress, and that they had some comrade, or some other ship in company, and fired these gun for signals of distress, and to obtain help.
This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
Seems that somepeople[sic] are distressed that those awful ethnic Albanian refugees are accepting donated formula and AREN'T BOOBFEEDING, those awful lousy mothers.
Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
We measured the duration, interelement interval, peak frequency and bandwidth of echolocation pulses and distress syllables.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
Distress calls structures included multiharmonic shallowly modulated calls (A), calls with sideband modulations (B, C), and some calls with nonlinear phenomena (D).
Meaning of distress for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "distress" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum. It's also a verb.