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Meaning of distressed


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  distressed
      adj 1: 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"
             [syn: {distressed}, {hard-pressed}, {hard put}, {in a bad
             way(p)}]
      2: generalized feeling of distress [syn: {dysphoric},
         {distressed}, {unhappy}] [ant: {euphoric}]
      3: suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out
         of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty
         breathing" [syn: {stressed}, {distressed}]
      4: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or
         grief; "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" [syn:
         {disquieted}, {distressed}, {disturbed}, {upset}, {worried}]


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