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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).
• Distressing in woodworking and the decorative arts is the art of making furniture and household objects look old.
• In law, distress, or distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized.