English-Danish translations for distress

• nødsituation
  Han gør forbrugerne usikre og udnytter sågar deres nødsituation til sine egne formål. It is breeding anxiety among consumers and exploiting their distress for its own ends.
  Desuden bekræftede udenrigsministrene, at de ikke ville lade menneskene i Gazastriben i stikken i deres humanitære nødsituation. The Foreign Ministers also reaffirmed that they did not wish to leave the people of the Gaza Strip without humanitarian assistance in their present distress.
• ubehag

Definition of distress

• Cause of) discomfort
• Serious danger
• An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt
• The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction
• To cause strain or anxiety to someone
• To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain
• To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age

Examples

• a pair of distressed jeans
• She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room

Related words

• distressing
• distressed
• distressedly
• distressful
• distressingly
• distressfully
• distress signal
• distress at sea
• damsel in distress