distressing 的 3 个定义
- great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble: distress over his mother's illness.
- a state of extreme necessity or misfortune: After the stock market crash, he found himself in great financial distress.
- the state of a ship or airplane requiring immediate assistance, as when on fire in transit.
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- afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
- caused by or indicative of distress or hardship: distress prices; distress borrowing.
- to afflict with great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; trouble; worry; bother: It distresses Grandpa when you bring up the war.
- to subject to pressure, stress, or strain; embarrass or exhaust by strain: to be distressed by excessive work.
- to compel by pain or force of circumstances: Her faithlessness distressed him into ending their marriage.
- to dent, scratch, or stain so as to give an appearance of age: She used an old bicycle chain to distress the surface of the table before applying a deep stain.
distressing 近义词
upsetting
更多distressing例句
- It’s also easy to anthropomorphize and misinterpret actions as gestures of joy that are actually signs of distress or just indifference.
- Covid-19—and its corollaries of uncertainty, isolation, and financial distress— is a mix of high-risk factors for developing a substance abuse disorder, or relapsing.
- In response, lawmakers called a hearing two months later, during which doctors and other experts testified that children suffered emotional and mental distress during the weeks or months their release was delayed.
- Under the radar, a new class of dangerous debt — climate-distressed mortgage loans — might already be threatening the financial system.
- We became officers because we wanted to help people in distress, make a difference in our communities and simply serve and protect.
- The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.
- In one of the most distressing events of the year, nerd entitlement hit 100.
- The health care workers, too, face “distressing” conditions.
- The current lack of available Simpsons clips online is distressing.
- Many Orange is the New Black fans found this scene to be particularly distressing.
- “This is a distressing predicament for these young people,” thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning.
- The fate of the royal family after this defeat was extremely singular and distressing.
- Indeed, the arrival of the American volunteers under these distressing circumstances produced a fresh commotion in Yloilo.
- It was more than distressing, it was afflicting—the letters tore an established reputation into a thousand pieces.
- It's seeing people and objects in their weird entirety, in their true and complete shapes, that is so distressing.