distressed

• IPA ^(key): /dɪˈstɹɛst/
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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: dis‧tressed

distressed (comparative more distressed, superlative most distressed)

1. Anxious or uneasy.

   Synonyms: distraught , heartsore , pained , unglued ; see also Thesaurus:agonized

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

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, "The Comedie of Errors", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

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

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, [...] (King James Version), London: [...] Robert Barker, [...], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 4:8:

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

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: [...] , London: [...] Nath[aniel] Ponder [...], →OCLC:

     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. (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
3. (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
4. (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
   • 2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 44:

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

   • 2024 March 19, Maeve McClenaghan, "Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017", in The Guardian‎^[1] , →ISSN:

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

5. (finance , of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default , or bankruptcy.

   distressed debt

   • 2019 November 7, "Distressed debt funds are waiting for a downturn", in The Economist‎^[2] , →ISSN:

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

   • 2023 May 25, "What properties would Sam Zell invest in next?", in The Economist‎^[3] , →ISSN:

     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".

   • 2023 December 16, "Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal", in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

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

distressed

1. simple past and past participle of distress

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