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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suffering distress.
- adjective Economically blighted; impoverished.
- adjective At risk of being foreclosed on.
- adjective For sale at a low price, as from being damaged, especially at a price below market value.
- adjective Intentionally marred or faded to convey an antique or used look.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suffering distress; exciting pity; miserable: as, a poor distressed object of charity. Also
distrest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
- adjective experienceing a generalized feeling of distress.
- adjective suffering severe physical strain or discomfort.
- adjective emotionally upset.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
anxious oruneasy - adjective of merchandise, etc.
damaged - adjective of a property offered for
sale afterforeclosure - adjective of furniture etc
faded orabused in order to appear old, orantique - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
distress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective generalized feeling of distress
- adjective suffering severe physical strain or distress
- adjective facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- adjective afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
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Examples
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I think the term distressed is no longer one that's used in sort of the normal course of describing the New York City office building market.
unknown title 2011
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Phoebe Caldwell prefers to use the term distressed behaviour rather than challenging behaviour.
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In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income."
Billionaire Banker Beal Wins Timing Victory On Tax Shelter 2010
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In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income."
Billionaire Banker Beal Wins Timing Victory On Tax Shelter 2010
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We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.
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We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.
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The first is to create a network to supply public middle school and high school band programs in distressed counties of Appalachia with new and used supplies and instruments.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains The Huffington Post 2010
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synonyms (94)
Words with the same meaning
- abashed
- afflicted
- agitated
- agonized
- annoyed
- anxious
- badly off
- beset
- bothered
- cast down
- chagrined
- chapfallen
- confused
- convulsed
- crucified
- discomfited
- discomforted
- discomposed
- disconcerted
- disquieted
- distracted
- distrait
- disturbed
- down to bedrock
- embarrassed
- feeling the pinch
- harassed
- hard put
- hard up
- hard-pressed
- harrowed
- hung up
- hurt
- hurting
- ill at ease
- ill off
- impecunious
- in Queer Street
- in a bad way
- in a bad way(predicate)
- in distress
- in narrow circumstances
- in pain
- in reduced circumstances
- in straitened circumstances
- in trouble
- inconvenienced
- irked
- lacerated
- land-poor
- martyred
- martyrized
- mortified
- narrow
- on the edge
- on the rack
- out of countenance
- out of pocket
- pained
- perturbed
- pinched
- plagued
- poor
- poorly off
- put to it
- put-out
- put-upon
- puzzled
- racked
- reduced
- short
- short of cash
- short of funds
- short of money
- sore beset
- squeezed
- straitened
- strapped
- stressed
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- troubled
- twisted
- uncomfortable
- under the harrow
- uneasy
- unmoneyed
- unprosperous
- upset
- vexed
- worried
- wounded
- wrung
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Other words for 'distressed'
rhymes (95)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Best
- Blessed
- Brest
- Celeste
- Este
- Midwest
- Pest
- Test
- West
- abreast
- acquiesced
- addressed
- arrest
- assessed
- attest
- behest
- bequest
- best
- blessed
- blest
- breast
- brest
- caressed
- celeste
- chest
- coalesced
- compressed
- confessed
- congest
- contest
- crest
- depressed
- detest
- digest
- digressed
- dispossessed
- divest
- dressed
- este
- expressed
- fessed
- fest
- finessed
- gest
- guessed
- guest
- impressed
- indigest
- infest
- ingest
- invest
- jest
- lest
- messed
- mest
- midwest
- molest
- nest
- neste
- northwest
- obsessed
- oppressed
- pest
- possessed
- pressed
- prest
- professed
- progressed
- protest
- quest
- rearrest
- reassessed
- recessed
- reinvest
- repossessed
- repressed
- request
- rest
- retest
- southwest
- stressed
- suggest
- suppressed
- test
- transgressed
- trest
- unaddressed
- undressed
- unimpressed
- unrest
- vest
- west
- wrest
- yest
- zest
bilby commented on the word distressed
Bald.
February 15, 2013