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distressesnounpl. of distress a state of great suffering of body or mindthe upcoming bar exam is causing us considerable distress the survivors were in extreme distress after having been stranded on the island for a week with no food afflictions, agonies, anguishes, excruciations, hurts, miseries, pains, racks, straits, torments, tortures, travails, tribulations, woes discomfortscrosses, crucibles, trialsheartaches, heartbreaks, sorrowsemergencies, pinchesasperities, difficulties, hardships, rigorsaches, pangs, stitches, throes, twingesdangers, jeopardies, troubles comforts, consolations, solacesalleviations, assuagements, eases, reliefspeaces, securitieswell-beings to trouble the mind of; to make uneasydon't let all the bad news distress you agitates, ails, alarms(also alarums), bothers, concerns, derails, discomforts, discomposes, dismays, disquiets, distempers, distracts, disturbs, exercises, flurries, frazzles, freaks (out), fusses, hagrides, perturbs, undoes, unhinges, unsettles, upsets, weirds out, worries aggravates, angers, annoys, bugs, chafes, chivies(or chivvies), exasperates, frets, galls, gets, grates, harasses, harries, irks, irritates, nettles, peeves, pesters, piques, puts off, puts out, riles, vexesbedevils, haunts, plaguesabashes, confounds, confuses, discomfits, disconcerts, discountenances, embarrasses, fazes, flusters, jars, mortifies, nonpluses(or nonplusses), rattles, shakes updaunts, demoralizes, discourages, disheartens, dispirits, unnerves calms, composes, quiets, settles, soothes, tranquilizes(also tranquillizes) allays, alleviates, assuagesappeases, conciliates, mollifies, pacifies, placates, propitiates |