different between destress vs distress
destress
English
Etymology
de- +? stress
Verb
destress (third-person singular simple present destresses, present participle destressing, simple past and past participle destressed)
- (transitive) To reduce the stresses in a material.
- (transitive, intransitive) To reduce the stress in oneself or another person.
- (transitive) To reduce emphasis.
Alternative forms
- de-stress
Anagrams
- desserts, dressest, stressed
destress From the web:
distress
English
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiare, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringere (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
distress (countable and uncountable, plural distresses)
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- Serious danger.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- (medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.
- The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.
Derived terms
- distress signal
Antonyms
- (maladaptive stress): eustress
Related terms
- distrain
- district
Translations
Verb
distress (third-person singular simple present distresses, present participle distressing, simple past and past participle distressed)
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- Synonyms: anguish, harrow, trouble, vex, torment, tantalize, tantalise, martyr
- (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- Synonym: distrain
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
- Synonyms: age, antique, patinate
Translations
Further reading
- distress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- distress at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- disserts
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