distressed

Definitions

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,
2. 2

   Damaged.

3. 3

   Offered for sale after foreclosure.

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   1. 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”.
   2. 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”.
   3. 6

      simple past and past participle of distress

The neighborhood