Meaning

• (Cause of) discomfort.

• Serious danger.

• An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

• A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

• The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Meaning

• To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

• To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.

• To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

  "She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room."