distressing

Definition of distressing in English English dictionary: Causing distress; upsetting; Present participle of distress; {s} troubling, worrying, saddening; Causing distress; painful; unpleasant; In a distressing manner; If something is distressing, it upsets you or worries you. It is very distressing to see your baby attached to tubes and monitors + distressingly dis·tress·ing·ly a distressingly large bloodstain. making you feel very upset; deliberate aging and weathering techniques to give character to woodwork, paintwork and metal; causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"; Dinging, heating, scratching, burnishing, and otherwise messing up a perfectly fine finish to simulate an antique; Deliberately creating a marred surface on furniture, thereby lending an aged look; Making something onstage look old or worn; bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
distress: A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt
distress: To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain
distress: discomfort
distress: To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
distress: {v} to harass, perplex, afflict, seize
distress: {n} to the act of distraining, misery, wane
Distress: stress
distress: A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc
distress: Distress is a state of extreme sorrow, suffering, or pain. Jealousy causes distress and painful emotions
distress: Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends
distress: If someone or something distresses you, they cause you to be upset or worried. The idea of Toni being in danger distresses him enormously. to make someone feel very upset
distress: extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"
distress: Distress is the state of being in extreme danger and needing urgent help. He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress
distress: To compel by pain or suffering
distress: The common law right of a landlord to seize the personal property of a tenant to satisfy past-due rent
distress: {f} upset, sadden, trouble, grieve; make a piece of furniture appear old, antique (by denting, scratching, painting, etc.)
distress: Serious danger
distress: The right of a party to sell the real or personal property of another party to pay for arrears in rent or loan payments
distress: What a plate sleeps on
distress: 1 The act or process by which a person, without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury
distress: To cause strain or anxiety to someone
distress: {i} extreme danger; trouble, hardship
distress: The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc
distress: a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
distress: The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction
distress: to retain someones property against the payment of a debt
distress: To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable
distress: The unpleasant stress that accompanies negative events (6)
distress: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
distress: cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
distress: means that a cave-in is imminent or is likely to occur Distress is evidenced by such phenomena as the development of fissures in the face of or adjacent to an open excavation; the slumping of material from the face or the bulging or heaving of material from the bottom of an excavation; the spalling of material from the face of an excavation; and raveling, i e small amounts of material such as pebbles or little clumps of material suddenly separating from the face and trickling or rolling down into an excavation
distress: That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery
distress: cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
distress: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
distress: To seize for debt; to distrain
distress: Refers to the act of pain or suffering affecting the mind