distressed

adjective

1. 1

   Anxious or uneasy.

   She is distressed because she can't find her keys.

   Oh that thou wer't not, poore distreſſed ſoule.

   Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,

   Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?"

2. 2

   Damaged.

3. 3

   Offered for sale after foreclosure.

4. 4

   Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.

   Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?

   Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”.

5. 5

   Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.

   distressed debt

   Funds that buy “distressed” debt, which typically yields ten percentage points or more over Treasuries, are becoming familiar villains.

   Sam Zell called himself “the Grave Dancer”, even though, as he explained, his penchant for buying distressed assets “wasn’t so much dancing on graves as …raising the dead”.

   One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises in distressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of distresssimple past and past participle of distress

Forms

comparative

more distressed

superlative

most distressed