distress

She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.

This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.

a pair of distressed jeans