DISTRESSED

dysphoric, distressed, unhappy

(adjective) generalized feeling of distress

disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried

(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; “too upset to say anything”; “spent many disquieted moments”; “distressed about her son’s leaving home”; “lapsed into disturbed sleep”; “worried parents”; “a worried frown”; “one last worried check of the sleeping children”

distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way

(adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; “distressed companies need loans and technical advice”; “financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices”; “we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment”; “found themselves in a bad way financially”

stressed, distressed

(adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress; “he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

distressed (comparative more distressed, superlative most distressed)

anxious or uneasy

(of merchandise, etc.) damaged

(of a property) offered for sale after foreclosure

(of furniture, etc.) faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique

Verb

distressed

simple past tense and past participle of distress

Source: Wiktionary

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DISTRESS

Dis*tress", n. Etym: [OE. destresse, distresse, OF. destresse, destrece, F. détresse, OF. destrecier to distress, (assumed) LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, and cf. Stress.]

1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

2. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. Burns.

3. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

4. (Law) (a) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc. (b) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.

Syn.

– Affliction; suffering; pain; agony; misery; torment; anguish; grief; sorrow; calamity; misfortune; trouble; adversity. See Affliction.

Dis*tress", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Distressing.] Etym: [Cf. OF. destrecier. See Distress, n.]

1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. 2 Cor. iv. 8.

2. To compel by pain or suffering. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. A. Hamilton.

3. (Law)

Definition: To seize for debt; to distrain.

Syn.

– To pain; grieve; harass; trouble; perplex; afflict; worry; annoy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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