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distressingly

/dih-stres/US // dɪˈstrɛs //UK // (dɪˈstrɛs) //

令人不安的是,令人痛心的是,令人担忧的是,令人不安地

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : that which causes pain, suffering, trouble, danger, etc.: His willful disobedience was a distress to his parents.
    • : liability or exposure to pain, suffering, trouble, etc.; danger: a damsel in distress.
    • : Law. the legal seizure and detention of the goods of another as security or satisfaction for debt, etc.; the act of distraining.the thing seized in distraining.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
    • : caused by or indicative of distress or hardship: distress prices; distress borrowing.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhard

Examples

  • Mink experience symptoms of respiratory distress from SARS-CoV-2, similar to humans, and die quickly after being infected with the virus.

  • Seeing his distress, Richards put his arm around Martin’s shoulder.

  • Kayla Jimenez reports that the emotional distress often came in the form of vitriolic social media posts, but also included phone calls and text messages.

  • Thys didn’t hang any of the flags upside down, but these are clearly distress symbols.

  • This is yet another in a line of preventable tragedies, another instance of police officers shooting unarmed men who are in psychological distress.

  • The ultimate result would be a more dangerous Brooklyn, most distressingly for kids such as Sarah and Mary.

  • Distressingly, this framing of the debate limits so many options.

  • Another month, another sign that the job market remains unchangingly, distressingly stuck.

  • In a city as large as New York, flawed witnesses are distressingly familiar.

  • "It is n't distressingly calm now," said the extra-strong frames—they were called web-frames—in the engine-room.

  • “Professor Fortescue is eloquent, but he makes one feel distressingly vegetable,” said Temperley.

  • The winters of Avignon, however, are sometimes rendered by it most distressingly cold.

  • You have, indeed, but you were such dear little girls then, and now you are growing distressingly tall; I do not half like it.

  • When the New York train reached there the young man found his guest in the smoking-car, travel-stained and distressingly clad.