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distressed

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distressed (comparativemoredistressed,superlativemostdistressed)

  1. Anxious oruneasy.
    Synonyms:distraught,heartsore,pained,unglued;see alsoThesaurus:agonized
    I'mdistressed that sexy John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
  2. (of merchandise, etc.)Damaged.
  3. (of a property) Offered forsale afterforeclosure.
  4. (of furniture, etc.)Faded orabused in order to appear old, orantique.
    • 2022, Carolyn Purnell,Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury,→ISBN,page44:
      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”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:
      Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older ordistressed”.
  5. (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress,default, orbankruptcy.
    distressed debt
    • 2019 November 7, “Distressed debt funds are waiting for a downturn”, inThe 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?”, inThe Economist[3],→ISSN:
      Sam Zell called himself “the Grave Dancer”, even though, as he explained, his penchant for buyingdistressed 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”, inFT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page10:
      One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises indistressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.

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anxious or uneasy
damaged
offered for sale after foreclosure
faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique

Verb

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distressed

  1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofdistress
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