distress

1. Offered for sale at a loss .

2. Involving distress goods .

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1. Acute physical discomfort.

2. Anxiety or mental suffering.

3. Law The act of distraining or seizing to compel payment.

4. Law The goods thus seized.

5. Physical deterioration, as of a highway, caused by hard use over time: pavement distress.

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1. To subject to great strain or difficulties .

2. To force or overcome by inflicting pain.

3. To cause to worry or be troubled .

4. To mar (as clothing or wood) deliberately to give an effect of age .

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1. Archaic To constrain or overcome by harassment.

2. Law To hold the property of (a person) against the payment of debts.

3. To cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to. See Synonyms at trouble.

4. To mar or otherwise treat (an object or fabric, for example) to give the appearance of an antique or of heavy prior use: "There are the fakes—new rugs which have been intentionally distressed for an older look” ( Hatfield MA Valley Advocate).

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
disserts	9	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
de	3
ed	3
er	2
es	2
et	2
id	3
is	2
it	2
re	2
si	2
te	2
ti	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
die	4
dis	4
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est	3
ids	4
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ser	3
set	3
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ted	4
tes	3
tie	3
tis	3

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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dirt	5
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stir	4
teds	5
tide	5
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ties	4
tire	4

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
deist	6
desis	6
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dress	6
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sties	5
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tides	6
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tires	5
tress	5
tried	6
tries	5

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
deists	7
desist	7
direst	7
disses	7
driest	7
resids	7
resist	6
resits	6
sister	6
stress	6
stride	7

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
desists	8
dissert	8
resists	7
sisters	7
strides	8

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
disserts	9
distress	9