DISTRESS Copy link • DISTRESS 1. Calamity; Vid: CALAMITY or AFFLICTION. To be in distress, in miseria esse or versari; in summa infelicitate versari; iniquissima fortuna uti; in angustias adduci: in the greatest distress, in summas angustias adduci: to relieve anybody’s distress, aliquem a miseria vindicare; ex miseriis eripere: I do not know how to get out of my distress, nescio quomodo me expediam ex re: to be in distress about anybody or anything, laborare de aliquo or de aliqua re (also laborare absolutely, to be anxiously concerned about anybody or anything): to be in distress for anything, laborare ab aliqua re (e.g., for corn, water, etc.): my only distress is for you, nihil laboro, nisi ut tu salvus sis: in the distress of the country, difficili rei publicae tempore: general distress, publica clades or clades atque calamitas. Pecuniary distress. [Vid: POVERTY.] To be in distress, in angustiis esse; angustius se habere; ad inopiam redactum esse: in great distress, in summa mendicitate esse; mendicitatem perpeti: not to let anybody suffer distress, victum alicui suppeditare; dare alicui, unde utatur: to relieve anybody’s distress, or anybody that is in distress, alicujus inopiae opitulari (as to poverty). Danger, Vid: To be in distress, laborare: a signal of distress, *periculi signum: to give a signal of distress, *aliqua re periculi significationem facere. Law term; [Vid: DISTRAINT]. The thing seized, pignus (general term, the pledge, in general). 2. v. To make miserable [Vid: To AFFLICT.] To Distrain, Vid: To BE DISTRESSED, laborare (to be in distressing or difficult circumstances; especially as military technical term: to be distress for corn, laborare ab re frumentaria: ships are distressed, triremes laborant, Caes.: our men are distressed, nostri laborant): aliquid me valde conturbat; aliquid me sollicitat, or sollicitum habet, or anxium ac sollicitum habet; sollicitus sum et angor; anxio animo et sollicito sum; angi or animo angi; se afflictare or affctari: about anything, anxie ferre aliquid: to be distress (as to circumstances, etc.), [Vid: “To be in DISTRESS”]: I am much distressed about your health, incredibili sum sollicitudine de tua valetudine; invaletudo (al. valetudo) tua me valde conturbat: to make anybody quite distressed, non mediocri cura pellere alicujus animum: distressed circumstances, res familiaris affecta, perturbata: to be distressed for money, de pecunia, laborare; in summa diffcultate numaria esse. Distressed, sollicitus; aegritudine affectus; aeger animo or animi. [Vid: MISERABLE.] Don’t be distressed, ne sis perturbatus.