Distress
The word
distress has various meanings:-
*In Maritime and Aircraft terms, distress is defined as "grave and imminent danger to life or person or vessel or aircraft, needing immediate assistance".
* In
medicine,
distress is
stress (medicine) caused by adverse events.
*
Distress is a
novel by
Greg Egan* Distress is also used by
Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions.
*Distress can also refer to the process whereby materials are worn down by time and natural forces (they are
distressed).
*In law, distress, or
distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized.
