Distress
Risk
Risk noun - The state of not being protected from injury, harm, or evil.
Usage example: children living in poverty are considered at risk for a number of medical and developmental problems
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| mortal | mortal distress | mortal risk |
| good | good distress | good risk |
| similar | similar distress | similar risk |
| considerable | considerable distress | considerable risk |
| Other adjectives: obvious, real, constant, severe, massive, great, serious, little, slight, bad, personal, major, incredible, apparent, less, unnecessary, slightest, further, significant, greater, greatest, financial, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
| level | distress level | risk level |
Both words in one sentence
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Turians in the same series are avians with similar Mirror Chemistry to Quarians, requiring them to eat their own specific sorts of food or risk digestive distress.
Source: Bizarre Alien Biology - Answering a distress call, Tai, TK, and Kari all enter the Digital World and discover that their Digimon partners can't evolve and are at risk of being enslaved by the Digimon Emperor.
Source: Newcomer Saves the Day -
Out-of-Character Alert: Toni signals her distress when Tad breaks in by saying she would take a nap after her workout - this after her doctor told her, in no uncertain terms, not to work out at all or risk her pregnancy.
Source: Literature / Net Force
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