Distress may refer to:
- Distress (medicine), occurring when an individual cannot adapt to stress
- Suffering
- Distress signal, an internationally recognized means for obtaining help
- Distressed inventory, an inventory of goods or materials whose potential to be sold at a normal cost has passed or will soon pass.
- Distressing, making clothing, furniture and household objects look old
- Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment
- Distress (novel) a novel by Greg Egan
Famous quotes containing the word distress:
“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)