4. misfortune, adversity, straits, difficulties, sea of troubles; hardship, austerity, need, necessitude, privation, lack, want; poverty, pennilessness, destitution, penury, wolf at the door, pauperism, beggary, impecu-niosity.
5. danger, peril, imperilment, precariousness, liability, jeopardy; disaster, calamity, catastrophe.
-v. 6. pain, sadden, aggrieve, make one's heart bleed, break one's heart; deject, dishearten, make miserable, depress; injure, wound, hurt, cut up, cut to the quick, cut to the heart, scathe.
7. afflict, grieve, perturb, disturb, harrow; trouble, worry, bother, harry, vex, annoy; persecute, plague, harass, oppress; torment, torture, agonize, inflict suffering upon.
8. encumber, overburden, overload; tax, strain, sap, weaken, enervate, wear out. distribute, v. 1. deal out, allot, dole out, mete out, parcel out, Inf. dish out, Inf. spoon out; dispense, award, allocate, apportion; administer, discharge, minister, apply; assign, issue, give out, detail; divide, Inf. divvy, partition, prorate, quarter; share, measure, admeasure, portion out.
2. disperse, dispel, spread, scatter, strew, bestrew; disseminate, overspread, sprinkle, spatter, circumfuse; sow, diffuse, propagate, broadcast.
3. pass out, deliver, circulate, convey, transmit; pass around, hand out, hawk.
4. classify, class, arrange, order, assort, compart; methodize, systematize; catalogue, tabulate, codify; divide, break into, break down, separate, set apart. distribution, n. 1. allotment, allocation, disbursement, assignment, dole; apportionment, portion, prorating, partition, repartition, quarter; lot, parcel, share, slice, cut, bit, Inf. divvy; administration, issuance, ministration, application.
2. dissemination, propagation, diffusion, dispersion, dispersal; circumfusion, scattering, strewing; circulation, spread, dispensation, broadcast; delivery, giving out, posting, shipment, transference.
3. arrangement, classification, organization, ordering, gradation; system, method, way; formulation, assortment, array, collation, collocation; tabulation, codification, cataloguing; division, breakup, separation.
4. frequency, rate of occurence or recurrence, prevalence, incidence, oftenness.
5. placement, location, deployment, disposition, situation; emplacement, fixation, localization, installation, establishment.
6. marketing, selling, merchandising, trafficking, retailing, trading; handling, transporting, dealing, exchange. district, n. 1. division, section, precinct, constituency, prefecture, department, arrondissement, ward; borough, province, state, canton, county, city; town, community, commune, parish; quarter, neighborhood.
2. region, area, domain, realm, sphere; zone, pale, demesne, territory, tract of land, Literary, clime; country, parts, place, locale, locality, Inf. neck of the woods. distrust, v. 1. mistrust, suspect, be suspicious of, be wary or leery of; shy away from, shrink from, watch out for; doubt, be skeptical of, disbelieve, have one's doubts, have misgivings, wonder about, question.
-n. 2. mistrust, credibility gap, lack of confidence or trust; suspicion, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, du-biosity, dubiousness; disbelief, unbelief, incredulity, incredulousness; watchfulness, wariness, leeriness, shyness; hesitation, uncertainty, misgiving, SI. bad vibes; qualm, question, second thought,

distrustful, adj. mistrustful, doubtful, dubious, suspicious; skeptical, disbelieving, unbelieving, incredulous; watchful, wary, leery, chary, shy, hesitating, uncertain, not sure, wondering, questioning; qualmish, uneasy, nervous,

disturb, v. 1. disquiet, discompose, ruffle, Inf. shake up; discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, put off.