distress
noun
great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
will distress
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future tenseof distress.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The bag is weather resistant and the leather will distress beautifully after a few seasons.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 12, 2018
Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will distress me greatly if you move on my account.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
So when he heareth this, he will weep, and the event will distress him.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
No, no, my dear Miss Clinton, you will not say so; do not be so cruel; you will distress me greatly, I assure you.
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
