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distressful

[ dih-stres-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. causing or involving distress:

    the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness.

  2. full of, feeling, or indicating distress:

    a distressful cry.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »åŸ±²õ·³Ù°ù±ð²õ²õf³Ü±ô·±ô²â adverb
  • »åŸ±²õ·³Ù°ù±ð²õ²õf³Ü±ô·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of distressful1

First recorded in 1585–95; distress + -ful
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When Roe was decided in 1973, she wrote, the justices maintained that an unwanted pregnancy would doom women to “a distressful life and future.”

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In Roe, the Supreme Court said that an unwanted pregnancy could lead women to “a distressful life and future,” and in a 1992 case, Casey v.

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Wade, the court, almost paternalistically, worried about the “distressful life and future” of a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy.

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“I saw for myself that it is very distressful for anyone and especially females to go through that and be gawked and stared at,” he said.

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Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family, came to bring still another.

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