Related Words for in distress

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distresses
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Noun
distraught
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Adjective
distress call
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Phrase, Noun
panics
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Noun
panic attack
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Phrase, Noun
desperation
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Noun
sufferings
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Noun
desperate
/x
Adjective
emergencies
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Noun
struggles
/x
Noun
stress
/
Noun, Verb
frightened
/x
Adjective
pleading
/x
Noun
traumatised
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Adjective
traumatized
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Adjective
cry out
//
Phrase, Verb
terrified
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Verb
mental anguish
/x/x
Name, Name
despairing
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Noun
plaintive
/x
Adjective
helplessness
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Noun
devastated
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Verb
cries
/
Noun
broke down
//
Phrase
depressed
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Adjective
tormented
/xx
Adjective
agonized
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Adjective
disoriented
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Verb
sobbing
/x
Noun
agonised
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Adjective
anxiety attack
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Phrase, Noun
heartrending
//x
Adjective
hurting
/x
Verb
vulnerable
/xxx
Adjective
cry for
//
Phrase, Verb
despondent
x/x
Adjective
imploring
x/x
Noun
uncomfortable
x/xxx
Adjective
predicaments
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Noun
broken down
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
nervous breakdown
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
hardship
/x
Noun
heartache
/x
Noun
whimpering
/xx
Verb
under pressure
/x/x
Phrase, Verb
scared
/
Verb
convulsing
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Noun
emotional
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Adjective
starving
/x
Verb
disorientated
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Verb
involuntarily
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Adverb
discomfited
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Adjective
begging
/x
Noun
trapped
/
Adjective
inconsolable
xx/xx
Adjective
trembling
/xx
Verb
affliction
x/x
Noun
agony
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Noun
alarm
x/
Noun, Verb
alert
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
angst
/
Noun, Verb
annoyance
x/x
Noun
anxiety
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Noun
asynchronous
//xx
Adjective
awaited
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Verb, Adjective
beacon
/x
Noun, Verb
bewilderment
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Noun
calamity
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Noun
challenges
/xx
Noun
concern
x/
Noun, Verb
confidential
xx/x
Adjective
confusion
x/x
Noun
consternation
xx/x
Noun
crisis
/x
Noun
crunch
/
Noun, Verb
damage
/x
Noun, Verb
danger
/x
Noun, Verb
deprivation
xx/x
Noun
desolation
xx/x
Noun
despondency
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Noun
destitution
/xxx
Noun
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
difficulties
/xxx
Noun
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
disarray
xx/
Noun, Verb
disaster
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Noun
discouragement
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Noun
disharmony
x/xx
Noun
dislocation
x//x
Noun
dismay
x/
Noun, Verb
disorder
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Noun, Verb
disquiet
x/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
disruption
x/x
Noun
dissatisfaction
xxx/x
Noun
disturbance
x/x
Noun
dread
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
embarrassment
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Noun
emotion
x/x
Noun
endangered
x/x
Adjective
faked
/
Verb
fear
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
frantic
/x
Adjective, Noun
frustration
x/x
Noun
garbled
/x
Adjective
grief
/
Noun, Verb
hassle
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
hazard
/x
Noun, Verb
heartbreak
/x
Noun
help
/
Verb, Noun
homelessness
/xx
Noun
hopelessness
/xx
Noun
hours
/x
Noun
hush
/
Noun, Verb
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
incoming
/xx
Adjective, Noun
inconvenience
xx/x
Noun, Verb
intensity
x/xx
Noun
intercepted
xx/x
Verb
jeopardy
/xx
Noun, Verb
loudest
/x
Adjective
lurch
/
Noun, Verb
macro
/x
Adjective, Noun
malaise
x/
Noun
mess
/
Noun, Verb
misery
/xx
Noun
misfortune
x/x
Noun
necessity
x/xx
Noun
need
/
Verb, Noun
needy
/x
Adjective
neglect
x/
Noun, Verb
not
/
Adverb, Noun
nuisance
/x
Noun
ordeal
x/
Noun
outgoing
/xx
Adjective, Noun
pain
/
Noun, Verb
penury
/xx
Noun
perdition
x/x
Noun
peril
/x
Noun, Verb
pittance
/x
Noun
plight
/
Noun, Verb
poverty
/xx
Noun
prearranged
xx/
Verb
precariousness
x/xxx
Noun
prerecorded
xx/x
Adjective
pressure
/x
Noun, Verb
receive
x/
Verb, Noun
regret
x/
Noun, Verb
relayed
/x
Verb
relief
x/
Noun, Adjective
risk
/
Noun, Verb
sadness
/x
Noun
seizure
/x
Noun, Verb
shock
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
shortage
/x
Noun
signal
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
socorro
//x
Name
sorrow
/x
Noun, Verb
spite
/
Noun, Verb
squalor
/x
Noun
stricken
/x
Adjective
stringency
/xx
Noun
stumble
/x
Verb, Noun
telephonic
xx/x
Adjective
threat
/
Noun, Verb
torture
/x
Noun, Verb
trauma
/x
Noun
trepidation
xx/x
Noun
trouble
/x
Noun, Verb
turmoil
/x
Noun, Verb
unbearable
x/xx
Adjective
unease
x/
Noun, Verb
uneasiness
x/xx
Noun
unhappiness
x/xx
Noun
unrest
x/
Noun
upheaval
x/x
Noun
voltage
/x
Noun
warning
/x
Noun
woe
/
Noun, Adjective
worry
/x
Verb, Noun