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.
A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
The act by which something is taken.
Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
Alluring; attractive.