verb
- Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.
- Cause mental pain to.
- usage: "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
- synonyms: distress
adjective
- Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way
- Generalized feeling of distress.
- Suffering severe physical strain or distress.
- usage: "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"
- synonyms: stressed
- Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried
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