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How to pronounce “distress”
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Pronunciation guide for distress
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of distress with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Our Towns
And in time of distress, there's a little red
- Definition summary
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
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How to pronounce distress
Our Towns
And in time of distress, there's a little red
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “distress”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) 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.
- [Verb]
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- (law) 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.
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