distress
要点激しい苦しみ、貧苦、危険状態、苦しめる
意味
- (肉体的・精神的な)激しい苦しみ,苦痛,苦悩,悲嘆
- 《a~》(…にとっての)悩みの種《+to+名》
- 貧苦,窮乏
- 危険状態,難儀
- (精神的・肉体的に)〈人〉を苦しめる,苦悩させる
例文
Her death was a great distress to all the family.
彼女の死で家族全員が悲嘆に暮れた。
Famine caused great distress among the people.
飢饉が人々にひどい窮乏をもたらした。
Many people were plunged into distress by the news.
その知らせは多くの人々を苦悩におとしいれた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”). The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.
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辞書順で近い単語
distracted distraction distraught distressing distribute distribution