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distress

/dɪˈstrɛs/

US pronunciation
American sound/dɪˈstrɛs/
dɪˈstrɛs
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

dɪ - ˈstrɛs -> distress

Myanmar meaning

(noun) စိတ်ပင်ပန်းခြင်း။ ပူပင်သောက။ (verb) ပူပင်သောကဖြစ်စေသည်။ စိတ်ညစ်စေသည်။

Full entry

distress /dÇ'stres/ n [U]

၁။ (က) သောက၊ ဒုက္ခ၊ ပရိဒေဝဖိစီးမှု။ ထိခိုက်နာကျင်မှု။ ဝမ်းနည်းမှု။
Her death was the cause of great distress to all the family.
(ခ) ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ။ ငတ်ပြတ် မွဲတေမှု။
Rescue workers attempted to relieve the widespread distress caused by the earthquake.
၂။ အခက်အခဲ၊ ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကျရောက်မှု။
a ship in distress ❍ send out a distress signal.
v (usu passive) စိတ်သောကရောက်သည်။ ပူပန်သည်။
She was too distressed to speak. ❍ Please don't distress yourself (ie do not worry).
❏ distressing adj စိတ်သောကဖြစ်စေသော။ စိတ်ဆင်းရဲစေ သော။
distressing news ❍ I found it very distressing when my parents adverced. distressingly adv

More examples
  • I wouldn’t want to cause her any distress.
  • [in distress] : She’d arrived on Gina’s doorstep in obvious distress.
  • A distress call/signal/flare
  • [in distress] : A message from a ship in distress
  • [in distress] : In some regions of our country, people are in genuine economic distress.
Synonyms
suffering, pain, sorrow, anguish, agony, grief, misery, ache, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, ail, angst, anxiety, bad luck, bad news, be on one's case, blues, bother, break, bug, bummer, burn up, calamity, can of worms, care, catastrophe, concern, cross, crunch, danger, dejection, depress, desolate, desolation, destitution, difficulty, disappointment, disaster, discombobulate, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, do a number on, dog, dolor, downer, drag, eat, embarrassment, exigency, get, get to, give a hard time, grieve, harass, hard knocks, hard time, hardship, harry, headache, heartache, heartbreak, holy mess, hot water, hound, hurt, indigence, injure, irk, irritate, irritation, jam, make it tough for, malaise, miff, misfortune, mortification, nag, need, needle, nit-pick, oppress, ordeal, pang, peeve, perplex, perplexity, pester, pick on, pickle, pinch, plague, poverty, privation, push, push buttons, rack, rigor, rotten luck, sadden, sadness, scrape, shame, stew, strain, straits, strap, stress, throe, tick off, ticklish spot, torment, torture, tough break, tough luck, trial, tribulation, trouble, try, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, unholy mess, upset, vex, vexation, vicissitude, visitation, want, weigh, woe, worriment, worry, wound, wretchedness
Antonyms
abundance, advantage, aid, appease, assist, assuage, be happy, benefit, blessing, boon, build, calm, calmness, cheer, comfort, contentment, cure, delight, discourage, dissuade, ease, euphoria, fix, fortune, gladden, gladness, good fortune, good health, good luck, happiness, heal, health, help, hide, ignore, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, leave alone, luxury, make happy, mend, miracle, neglect, peace, placate, please, pleasure, plenty, relief, relieve, soothe, success, support, wealth, wonder
Cross references
sufferingpainsorrowanguishagonygriefmiseryacheadversityafflictafflictionaggrieveagonizeailangstanxietybad luckbad newsbe on one's casebluesbotherbreakbugbummerburn upcalamitycan of wormscare
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