I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
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A moment later, the cat is in acute distress .
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Suddenly your grown-up veneer gives way to a childlike sensitivity that causes you to feel-within minutes-wonderful happiness and acute distress .
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But some buy-outs have ended in the bankruptcy court or in acute distress .
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The symbolic center of the greatest nation on earth is a city in acute distress and a global embarrassment.
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Local distress funds continued to be raised in periods and places of acute distress, although they came increasingly under government control.
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They would show signs of acute distress , crying loudly and vigorously.
considerable
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This event commonly causes considerable distress to the woman involved.
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Breaking of a habit, or the disruption of a routine, can cause the horse considerable distress .
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The poor beast flew round and round above my head in considerable distress .
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The small number who had contact with the police experienced considerable distress .
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The onset of bladder dysfunction ... leads to considerable distress and embarrassment.
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The investigation of firing showed that it certainly didn't help healing, causing the horse considerable distress for no good reason.
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The clergy are seen as above criticism in their religious statements, and such criticism can cause considerable distress to many people.
deep
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These people suffer the same reactions as they did when diagnosed the first time, but with deeper levels of distress .
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And those in swing districts may well be in deep distress as national Republican fortunes falter.
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Attack Svetlana was in deep distress before the bombs exploded.
economic
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Inflation, around 12%, is lowish but bothersome. Economic distress need not bring unrest.
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However, in the short run, Gdynia was more than capable of causing the Danzigers severe economic distress and genuine hardship.
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Certainly Forster's powers of demagoguery were equal to the city's economic distress .
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But it was not economic distress that precipitated the present crisis.
emotional
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In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress .
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Simply ... understanding mental illness Everyone experiences emotional distress .
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If they are overeating as a result of emotional distress , there are cures.
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Furthermore, in 1975 an executive who suffered emotional distress after being demoted was awarded £500 compensation.
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Cameron did not satisfy the state law requirements to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress .
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Whether you are experiencing physical pain, mental anguish or emotional distress , you will feel it deeply at the time.
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As you can imagine, this causes us a great deal of humiliation and emotional distress .
financial
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The price of financial distress has been raised.
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Similarly, bankers become committed to a customer if they can not withdraw facilities without causing that customer financial distress .
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When there are limits on borrowing, a company or household in financial distress has to survive on cash flow.
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Any price increases will cause even more financial distress .
great
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This negative response created great distress to Mrs X as she has her heart set on becoming an embalmer.
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But while participation on business teams can offer enormous psychic satisfactions, it can also cause great distress .
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By nine in the evening Sarah was in great distress , as was the child within her.
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There was every reason, apart from the unexpectedness of the news, why this should have given Eliot the greatest distress .
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She faced the tragedy with courage, acting with dignity even though she was obviously in great distress .
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People are coming to us in great distress .
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One, which caused him great distress , was that of a child.
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All this causes great distress through ignorance of the nature of the disease and the way it is transmitted.
mental
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The defendants accepted that damages could be awarded for mental distress and that the wife actually suffered mental distress.
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Such mental distress is only possible for beings capable of comparing one chapter of their lives with another.
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It shows some one in obvious mental distress and gives a strong message that the nurse has a positive job to do.
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She is also entitled to damages for her mental distress caused by the solicitors' negligence.
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The defendants accepted that damages could be awarded for mental distress and that the wife actually suffered mental distress.
obvious
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It shows some one in obvious mental distress and gives a strong message that the nurse has a positive job to do.
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Throughout the whole exercise the Puffer was in a state of obvious distress , but did not inflate.
physical
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Result: carnage averted but father left in state of deep physical and nervous distress .
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Relief from physical distress is the first priority, but it is not the ultimate goal.
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Often there are no tour guides and travellers are getting lost, or returning with spiritual, mental and sometimes physical distress .
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Bereavement over the loss of a loved one and physical distress like extreme room temperatures can also produce sleeplessness.
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And there was always the shadow of illness, the occasional disturbing blankness, the spasms of physical distress .
psychological
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The analysis will also take into account the psychological distress resulting from unemployment, which is known to vary considerably by country.
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Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress .
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Adding to physiological disturbances is the psychological distress that is invariably involved.
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Of course a horse's physical needs have to be satisfied to avoid psychological distress too.
respiratory
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Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
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Although the incidence of the respiratory distress syndrome was similar in our groups there were significant differences in variables reflecting disease severity.
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An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
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Eight hours after admission he suddenly deteriorated, with severe respiratory distress and increasing left chest signs.
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She had well established adult respiratory distress syndrome, requiring artificial ventilation with 90% fractional inspired oxygen.
social
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Decision-making, by considering alternative responses to their social , distress , leading to new forms of social performance.
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The causes of social distress are not uniform.
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Feelings and situations which some people cope with adequately can become quite unbearable for others. Social distress arises directly from self-image.
■ NOUN
call
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The 499 ton salvage tug then sent out a Mayday distress call to the effect that she was on fire and sinking.
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Ten minutes later it sent out a distress call saying two of its four engines caught fire.
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Back at bomber command, the radio operator received the distress call .
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On a neighbouring farm, Derek Hinde has spent three weeks answering distress calls on the radio.
signal
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Failing all this, raising and lowering your outstretched arms at your side is an accepted international distress signal .
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Even if the means could be found, there were reasons why they might never attempt to beam a distress signal into space.
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On a given distress signal from him, or from anyone close to him, I was to post them off.
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They act like linguistic distress signals .
■ VERB
cause
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This event commonly causes considerable distress to the woman involved.
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Or that this honeymoon journey is causing her distress ?
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A consultant paediatrician said the bruising would have caused a degree of distress when inflicted but it would have been temporary.
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Breaking of a habit, or the disruption of a routine, can cause the horse considerable distress .
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Such calls could cause distress and should be stopped.
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This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress .
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I quite understand that this implication has caused offence or distress to some people, for which I apologise.
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The combination of tight money and high debt is causing more than token distress .
relieve
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The resident's doctor may have prescribed pain killers or drugs to relieve distress .
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No one comes to relieve my distress .
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He himself is moved to relieve his distress , but why should my imaginative simulation move me to do the same?
show
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Should none of these treatments work and other fish shows signs of distress , it is probably kinder to painlessly destroy.
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But the electorate showed signs of increasing distress , even cynicism, about the corrosive effect of money in politics.
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The eyes of those suffering from brain damage showed a most profound distress .
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Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government's intransigence.
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But in Toronto Goldbloom showed signs of distress .
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There seems little point in saying that teething is a non-existent condition which has never reliably been shown to cause any distress .
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They would show signs of acute distress , crying loudly and vigorously.
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At the end of the treatment, Charlotte showed no signs of distress .
suffer
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And as well as the injury caused by hooking, they suffer distress from being hauled out of the water and handled.
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An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
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Furthermore, in 1975 an executive who suffered emotional distress after being demoted was awarded £500 compensation.
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Whilst it is true that some mentally handicapped people suffer distress , this is equally true of other people in society.
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A woman as passive and yet responsive as she was could well suffer emotional distress which she would not overtly express.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
damsel in distress
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Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress, waiting for her knight to rescue her.
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The real Mario has no such problems with damsels in distress.
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You know the sort of thing: the damsel in distress chained to the railway line as the express thunders towards her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children suffer emotional distress when their parents divorce.
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Symptoms of panic attacks can include chest pain and abdominal distress .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Breaking of a habit, or the disruption of a routine, can cause the horse considerable distress .
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Edwards's uncle Joseph Hawley in distress searched his soul until the devil sent a despairing thought.
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It is imperative that these claims are dealt with discreetly to avoid any distress to the deceased's relatives.
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Social distress - a restricted, inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties.
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The Home Office tried to ban the interview on the grounds it might cause distress to relatives of Nilsen's victims.
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The long railway journey added to his distress .
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The sun became relentlessly hot, adding dehydration to my distress .
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They had the effect of diminishing the force of the decree, to the distress of non-Catholic observers.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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But the Bruins seemed to accept their plight, rather than challenge it, and that may have most distressed Harrick.
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It is difficult to target economic development activities so that the most distressed urban areas or disadvantaged social groups are assisted.
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And he has a most distressing ally in this effort, a media suddenly gone mushy and unfocused.
so
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How could she indulge herself when Suzie was so distressed ?
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She was so distressed that she caught the first flight from Calcutta to New Delhi.
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Cratylus found the world and his role in it so distressing that he was reduced to communicating by waggling a finger.
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The attack happened 2 weeks ago, but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police.
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Albert was so distressed by the whole affair that he applied for another post further away from the scene of the tragedy.
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We're all so distressed about her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It distressed him to see Susie cry.
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The number of young men who called asking for Marie distressed her mother.
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The prospect of a painful death distresses most people.