Distressing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTRESSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain
• give (furniture or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear
• In a distressing manner.
NOUN:
• the act of distressing
• extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain
• the state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty and needing help
• difficulty caused by lack of money
• a state of physical strain, especially difficulty in breathing
ADJECTIVE:
• causing anxiety or suffering to
• Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.
• causing distress or worry or anxiety
• bad; unfortunate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cause anxiety or suffering to

Words related to DISTRESSING

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Words that contain DISTRESSING

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How to use DISTRESSING in a sentence

• This account of the destination of these little vessels, though it was distressing at first, appeared to me afterwards, on cool reasoning, to be incredible.
• If the ship was full, their situation was then distressing.
• It seemed to me that the whole distressing affair might now be considered definitely closed.
• We are to practice every method of distressing them, and to promote the success of our arms even at the expense of present gain, and the interest of private men.
• And not only were the existing conditions most distressing to the Romans, but they dreaded a far greater number of more terrible acts from Caesar.
• In other wars, what to the man at home was most distressing was the destruction of life.
• While the Government continues to gain the upper hand, and the insurgent leaders are being defeated and obliged to flee the country, the condition of affairs is most distressing.
• It is impossible to contemplate this distressing picture a moment longer.
• The event has been most distressing, and most sudden and unexpected to us.
• Hope awoke, feeling much brighter, and felt that the motion was not so distressing as yesterday.
• There may be, and doubtless is, in the hearts of some or many of them a real antipathy or anger against revealed truth, which it is distressing to think of.
• The light was so distressing to his eye that the lids were closed as soon as it was over.
• He did so, and never can he forget the distressing scene he then witnessed.
• Many were the distressing cases that came under my attention.
• His only daughter met her death in a distressing way.
• Men generally suffer more from the distressing sickness than women.
• He found him sunk into a deep sleep, and with difficulty it was that he roused him, and made him acquainted with the distressing intelligence.
• He re-covered it as his father entered the room, and drowned, without distressing himself, the impotent efforts of the others.
• For sixty days he continued to perform, by day and night, all the distressing and revolting offices incident to the situation.
• By the remembrance of our former affection and happiness, I conjure you, refuse me not At present, I entreat you to conceal from her this distressing tale.
• The union of an emigration with an arrangement is distressing if the whole place is shown to be there.
• A much greater number of stations is employed and the confusion resulting is distressing not only to the subscribers themselves but also to the management of the company.
• There is not in my mind the slightest doubt that he knows exactly now what misguided impulse drove Shiela to that distressing sacrifice of herself and you.
• It may seem unwise and unnecessary to put before young girls so dark and distressing a subject as the social evil.
• When he opened his eyes he turned them to the meadow, where the unknown woman was still running and uttering her distressing cries.
• The facts may be most distressing and yet nobody seems much distressed, still less is any one depressed.

Similar words containing TRESS without suffix ing and without prefix dis

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