Past tense of distress
regular verb
The past tense of distress is distressed. The past participle is also distressed.
Forms of distress
| Base form (V1) | distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | distressed /dɪˈstɹɛst/ |
| Past participle (V3) | distressed /dɪˈstɹɛst/ |
| Present participle | distressing /dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | distresses |
Distressed in a sentence
- a pair of distressed jeans
- She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
- She is distressed because she can't find her keys.From the entry distressed
- Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”.2024 March 19, Maeve McClenaghan, “Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry distressed
- One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises in distressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The…. From the entry distressed
Meaning of distress
- noun Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- noun A cause of such discomfort.
- noun Serious danger.
Questions about the past tense of distress
- What is the past tense of distress?
- The past tense of distress is distressed.
- What is the past participle of distress?
- The past participle of distress is distressed.
- Is distress a regular or irregular verb?
- Distress is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: distress (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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