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distressed

[dih-strest]

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adjective

affected with or suffering from distress.

(of merchandise or property for sale) damaged, out-of-date, or used.

(of real estate) foreclosed and offered for sale.

(of furniture) purposely blemished or marred so as to give an antique appearance.

(of fabric) made or processed to appear faded or wrinkled, as if from long, steady use: Our best-selling jeans are the ones in distressed denim.

Origin:
1580–90; distress + -ed²

Related forms

dis·tress·ed·ly

[dih-stres-id-lee, -strest-lee] , adverb

dis·tress·ed·ness, noun

qua·si-dis·tressed, adjective

un·dis·tressed, adjective

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Example Sentences

Vulture funds are investment firms that buy securities of distressed companies and overleveraged countries.

After years of double-digit gains, college endowments are feeling the pinch from distressed financial markets.

Many private-equity firms and vulture funds with a longer history are, however, loth to buy distressed technology businesses.

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Vulture funds are investment firms that buy securities of distressed companies and overleveraged countries.

After years of double-digit gains, college endowments are feeling the pinch from distressed financial markets.

Many private-equity firms and vulture funds with a longer history are, however, loth to buy distressed technology businesses.

Grace stood silently, appearing interested but not distressed.

Why don't they ask people if they are distressed at the idea of hallucinating.

Leave your puppy unattended for long enough and it'll become so filthy and distressed that it'll run away.

The distressed building has recently changed hands again.

Perhaps the person who was distressed by such an innocuous expression should reduce caffiene intake.

It issued orders to protect healthy forests, rehabilitate distressed ones and replant many woodland areas cleared for farmland.

Like the iconic cowboys who rode across the parched land, this distressed cowhide hat is an outback original.

Many of us are distressed by the lack of adequate tax revenues to fund the good things the government does.

While highly successful as buyers of distressed debt, the investors have no experience running a specialty retailer.

Some were morose, wringing their hands, visibly distressed over the process.

The distressed look has usurped the slick new look-out of choice, not necessity.

His group stayed, but suffered poor housekeeping and food service, effects of the distressed property's staff cutbacks.

With patience you may be able to find a distressed buyer or an estate sale.

Then there are distressed technology minnows, selling patents in the recession to raise the cash to survive.

The firm also said it planned to open a new fund focused on distressed investment in real estate.

He was a good student who seemed genuinely distressed.

She promised hefty federal guarantees to help lenders refinance distressed mortgages.

Many were stylishly attired in distressed jeans and bright-colored.

Laura, received a call from a woman who was distressed by her sister's decision.

He has honed his distressed wildebeest calf call to get his subjects' attention.

To treat shoddily the mentally distressed is malpractice particularly foul.

Executives from the company synonymous with the housing bubble are now buying distressed properties.

Whether or not talk of depression is borne out, defaults, distressed debt and deleveraging will be.

Squirrels that tasted the treated seeds seemed distressed and tried to wipe off their muzzles.

The primary factor that yields comfort is the relationship between the distressed person and the listener.

It is important to track distressed students throughout the semester.

Here you have a choice, depending on how distressed or gratified you would be if he or she were to leave.

Greek bonds continued to trade at distressed levels.

And they said the absence of these feelings and thoughts distressed them.

And they said he was distressed that his words proved polarizing and contrary to his instincts for conciliation.

Many low-tech professors were extremely distressed by that charge of educational malpractice.

Distressed funds are willing to buy, albeit at steep discounts.

For a long time he had been mentally distressed by fear of business reverses.

But even within these distressed industries, there were some bright spots.

In these cases, distressed debt can be viewed as an extreme form of value investing.

Tories distressed by that pose should be cheered by the fact that it could prove hard to maintain.

The bride is a special education teacher and the bridegroom trades distressed mortgages.

It is enlisted for the unending campaign to succor distressed humanity.

But the coming months are likely to see a sharp jump in the supply of homes for sale under distressed conditions.

Heck, there's not a single distressed black leather.

Counting on a recovery, banks often lent more to distressed borrowers or tucked problem loans out of sight in subsidiaries.

Most people feel distressed when they see another person in pain.

The panic-driven negotiations of the distressed company and the leverage of its savior often work to create both extreme and.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.

a state of extreme necessity or misfortune.

the state of a ship or airplane requiring immediate assistance, as when on fire in transit.

that which causes pain, suffering, trouble, danger, etc.

liability or exposure to pain, suffering, trouble, etc.; danger: a damsel in distress.

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Law.

the legal seizure and detention of the goods of another as security or satisfaction for debt, etc.; the act of distraining.

the thing seized in distraining.

to dent, scratch, or stain (furniture, lumber, or the like) so as to give an appearance of age.

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adjective

afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.

caused by or indicative of distress or hardship: distress prices; distress borrowing.

verb (used with object)

10.

to afflict with great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; trouble; worry; bother.

11.

to subject to pressure, stress, or strain; embarrass or exhaust by strain: to be distressed by excessive work.

12.

to compel by pain or force of circumstances: His suffering distressed him into committing suicide.

Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English destresse < Anglo-French distresse, destresse, Old French < Vulgar Latin *districtia, equivalent to Latin district(us) (see district) + -ia -y³; (v.) Middle English destressen < Anglo-French destresser (Old French destrecier), derivative of the noun

Related forms

dis·tress·ing·ly, adverb

pre·dis·tress, noun, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
1. agony, anguish, adversity, tribulation. See sorrow. 2. need, destitution.

Antonyms
1. comfort.

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World English Dictionary

distressed (dɪˈstrɛst)

—*adj*
1.	much troubled; upset; afflicted
2.	in financial straits; poor
3.	(of furniture, fabric, etc) having signs of ageing artificially applied
4.	economics another word for depressed

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Word Origin & History

distress

late 13c., from O.Fr. destresse, from Gallo-Romance *districtia "restraint, affliction," from L. districtus, pp. of distringere "draw apart, hinder," also, in M.L. "compel, coerce," from dis- "apart" + stringere "draw tight, press together" (see strain (v.)). Related: Distressed; distressing.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

distress dis·tress (dĭ-strěs')
n.

Mental or physical suffering or anguish.
Severe strain resulting from exhaustion or trauma.

dis·tress' adj.

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