distressed
/dɪˈstɹɛst/ adjective B2- Anxious or uneasy. · She is distressed because she can't find her keys.
- Damaged.
- Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy. · distressed debt
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Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.
“I saw you look at me to-day, Lizzy, when my aunt told us of the present report; and I know I appeared distressed; but don’t imagine it was from any silly cause.
“I found her very pale and distressed.
To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
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