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Distress
The Dutch language borrowed the word 'stress' from English. Originally, 'stress' meant "adversity, misery..". That's an abbreviation of 'distress'. In Old French: 'destrece' meant 'tense situation', 'adversity'. Nowadays "distress" means, in English as well as in Dutch, a "very high stress" with negative physical and/or psychological impact. |