distressing
adjective/dɪˈstresɪŋ/
/dɪˈstresɪŋ/
- making you feel extremely upset, especially because somebody is suffering
- It was a very distressing documentary.
- What could be more distressing than the death of their only child?
- The divorce was extremely distressing for the children.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- find something
- …
- extremely
- very
- deeply
- …
- for
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