1 upset and anxious:
He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions.
2 suffering pain; in a poor physical condition:
When the baby arrived, it was blue and distressed.
3 (of a piece of clothing or furniture) made to look older and more worn than it really is:
a distressed leather jacket
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for distressed is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is distressed a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, distressed is tagged as adjective.
Does distressed appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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