Distress is a kind of suffering.

Distress is also used by Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions.

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.

In medicine, distress is stress caused by adverse events.

Distress is a novel by Greg Egan