distressed

be distressed by thirst

distressed furniture; distressed denim.

women in distressed circumstances.

a distressed leather jacket.

be distressed at some sad news

I was distressed at the news of his death.

the distressed relatives of his victims.

The mother was distressed by her baby's illness.

comforted the distressed child;

the distressed parents of wayward youths.

he was not distressed by the death of a man he had always disliked.

a turn of events that has distressed us;

The news of his death distressed us greatly.

greatly distressed hereat, they declared themselves to deserve a fine.

I've always been interested in fractured, demented, asymmetrical, incongruous textures, and indeed what I call “dysprosody” – the prosody of distressed sounds.

Tertiary level─treatment for the understressed is the focus, provisions liked counseling, policies formulating will usually be deployed in order to help the distressed get back to work.