Chapter Disrepute to Dive of D by Soule's Synonymes

Distraction, n.

1. Confusion, perplexity, embarrassment, bewilderment, abstraction, mystification.

2. Disturbance, discord, tumult, disorder, division, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, agitation.

3. Derangement, madness, raving, frenzy, insanity, alienation, aberration, incoherence, wandering, delirium, mania, lunacy, hallucination, loss of the senses, disordered intellect or faculties, loss of reason.

Distrain, v. a. (Law.) Seize (for debt), take, attach, distress.

Distress, n.

1. Affliction, calamity, disaster, misery, misfortune, adversity, hardship, trial, trouble, perplexity.

2. Anguish, agony, suffering, sorrow, grief.

3. Pain, anguish, agony, torture, gripe, griping.

4. Privation, destitution, poverty, indigence, want, straits.

Distress, v. a.

1. Afflict, perplex, pain, trouble, grieve, make unhappy, make miserable.

2. (Law.) Take, seize, distrain.

Distribute, v. a.

1. Apportion, assign, allot, dispense, mete, divide, share, dole (out), parcel out, deal out, portion out.

2. Classify, class, arrange, assort, dispose.

Distribution, n.

1. Apportionment, allotment, assignment, dole, partition, division, dispensation, dispensing.

2. Arrangement, classification, disposal, disposition, grouping.

District, n. Region, tract, territory, circuit, province, quarter.

Distrust, v. a. Doubt, suspect, lack confidence in, mistrust, disbelieve in.

Distrust, n. Suspicion, misgiving, doubt, mistrust, want of confidence.