Usually means: Experiencing extreme anxiety, suffering, hardship.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word distressed:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. distressed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distressed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distressed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distressed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distressed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distressed, distressed: Wordnik
  7. distressed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distressed: Wiktionary
  9. distressed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distressed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distressed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Distressed, distressed: Dictionary.com
  13. distressed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Distressed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. distressed: Rhymezone
  16. Distressed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. distressed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. distressed: Free Dictionary
  19. distressed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. distressed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distressed: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distressed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distressed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distressed: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distressed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Anxious or uneasy.
adjective:  (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
adjective:  (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
adjective:  (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
adjective:  (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.

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