Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
A cause of such discomfort.
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Serious danger.
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.