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/dɪstɹˈɛst/
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[ US /dɪˈstɹɛst/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɹɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- generalized feeling of distress
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afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
too upset to say anything
worried parents
a worried frown
spent many disquieted moments
distressed about her son's leaving home
one last worried check of the sleeping children
lapsed into disturbed sleep -
facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
distressed companies need loans and technical advice
we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
found themselves in a bad way financially -
suffering severe physical strain or distress
he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
How To Use distressed In A Sentence
- And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
- When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
- The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
- After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
- Mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors. The Sun
- But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot. Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
- The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
- She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
- The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs. Times, Sunday Times
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