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Overview of verb distress

The verb distress has 2 senses


  • straiten, distress -- (bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship)

  • distress -- (cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother")


Overview of adj distressing

The adj distressing has 2 senses


  • distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying -- (causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time")

  • deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry -- (bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs")