Distressed
[dɪ'strest] or [dɪ'strɛst]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Distress
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Examples
- Don't be distressed,' said Eugene, very, very kindly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Elizabeth was distressed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Its followers were mainly slaves, soldiers, and distressed people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am quite well; I am only distressed by some dreadful news which I have just received from Longbourn. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She would have been distressed at any time by this discovery of the letters; but so much so, and in that unrestrainable way? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I forced back the contemptible tears that were no relief to ME, and that only distressed HER, and reasoned and pleaded as calmly as I could. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the name of all that's good--and that is not conjuring you in my own name, for Heaven knows I am not good'--said Eugene, 'don't be distressed! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I hope I have explained myself; for I am heartily sorry to have distressed you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- St. Clare opened his eyes, and looked fixedly on the distressed beings, whom Miss Ophelia and the doctor were trying to urge from the apartment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It distressed him to disappoint others. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I hope it is not I who have distressed you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At length he had got so much of it that I was distressed to think what I should do in case of being called on to remit it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You shall not be distressed, she said, by hearing how soon my disappointments and my trials began--or even by knowing what they were. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I will not call it love or affection, else why does he with his twenty thousand a year suffer her to be so shockingly distressed? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was a good deal distressed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I stopped, distressed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had a son,' she said, curiously distressed, and not by any of the usual appearances of sorrow; 'and he did well, wonderfully well. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It distressed Mrs. Hale excessively. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mrs. Norris contrived to remove one article from his sight that might have distressed him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But I believe (seeing Fanny looked distressed) it must be at some other time. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She was so dreadfully alarmed and distressed that she was quite useless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Jane was distressed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Naturally enough, in your position, you are shocked and distressed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She is greatly distressed; but her father is comforting her, and she feels the better for being out of court. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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