· bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

Synonym(s): straiten

Hypernym(s): trouble, put_out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother

· cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

Hypernym(s): disturb, upset, trouble

· facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"

Synonym(s): hard-pressed, hard_put, in_a_bad_way

· generalized feeling of distress

Synonym(s): dysphoric, unhappy

· suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"

Synonym(s): stressed

· afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"

Synonym(s): disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried