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Distressing

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Definition

distress /dÇ'stres/ n [U] ၁။ (က) ေသာက၊ ဒုကၡ၊ ပရိေဒဝဖိစီးမႈ။ ထိခိုက္နာက်င္မႈ။ ဝမ္းနည္းမႈ။ Her death was the cause of great distress to all the family. (ခ) ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡ။ ငတ္ျပတ္ မြဲေတမႈ။ Rescue workers attempted to relieve the widespread distress caused by the earthquake. ၂။ အခက္အခဲ၊ ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္ က်ေရာက္မႈ။ a ship in distress ❍ send out a distress signal. v (usu passive) စိတ္ေသာကေရာက္သည္။ ပူပန္သည္။ She was too distressed to speak. ❍ Please don't distress yourself (ie do not worry). ❏ distressing adj စိတ္ေသာကျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ စိတ္ဆင္းရဲေစ ေသာ။ distressing news ❍ I found it very distressing when my parents adverced. distressingly adv

Examples

  1. I wouldn’t want to cause her any distress.
  2. [in distress] : She’d arrived on Gina’s doorstep in obvious distress.
  3. A distress call/signal/flare
  4. [in distress] : A message from a ship in distress
  5. [in distress] : In some regions of our country
  6. people are in genuine economic distress.