What is another word for distressing ?

Causing worry, distress or anxiety

upsetting

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Adjective

Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety

Adjective

Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

like getting blood out of a stone

labored^US

laboured^UK

easier said than done

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Adjective

enough to try the patience of a saint

Offensive, causing or eliciting a strong negative reaction

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

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Adjective

Causing embarrassment or unease

dishonoring^US

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Adjective

In urgent need of immediate attention

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

of the utmost importance

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Verb

getting someone's dander up

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's wick

ruffling someone's feathers

getting in someone's hair

rattling someone's cage

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's hackles up

getting under someone's skin

making someone's hackles rise

getting someone's back up

making somebody's hackles rise

getting on one's nerves

rubbing the wrong way

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

nagging at

hurting somebody's feelings

getting your dander up

victimizing^US

tantalizing^US

getting your hackles up

making miserable

driving bananas

jarring on

putting someone's nose out of joint

imposing on

tantalising^UK

dumping on

bending someone's ear

hanging up

putting to trouble

driving you up the wall

victimising^UK

terrorizing^US

criticizing^US

getting across someone

setting one's teeth on edge

criticising^UK

causing discomfort to

breathing down someone's neck

wearing

mixing up

terrorising^UK

trying the patience of

rubbing you up the wrong way

putting on the spot

getting a rise out of

working up

taking the piss out of

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

making it hot for someone

sticking in one's craw

making someone scratch their head

inflicting anguish on

ragging on

making things hot for someone

making someone fed up

getting on the wrong side of

causing resentment to

wigging

getting on someone

shaming

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

messing

humiliating

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

pushing one's buttons

belabouring^UK

making an enemy of somebody

putting to some trouble

making severe demands on

searching high heaven

driving you crazy

making your gorge rise

sweating out

rousting

putting

bringing pressure to bear on

driving you out of your mind

driving you off your head

making you see red

driving you round the twist

driving out of mind

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you round the bend

gibing at

sneering at

sticking the knife into

getting the knife into

upsetting the applecart

giving the cold shoulder

filling with loathing

giving a zinger

pushing the buttons of

making self-conscious

owning

showing up

wisecracking

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

knocking the wind out of

harshing one's mellow

putting out of countenance

throwing into a tizzy

belaboring^US

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

falling upon

starting in on

moping

hurting the feelings of

breaking the heart of

tyrannizing^US

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

carrying a heavy load

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

reducing to tears

making desolate

making despondent

getting into a dither

tyrannising^UK

putting someone off their stroke

making nervous

causing someone to lose their composure

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

putting in traction

carping at

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

satirizing^US

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

disorientating

causing to be at a stand

staggering

messing with one's head

setting someone thinking

going through the mill

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

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Verb

Present participle for to cause significant upset to (someone)

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

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“He had done everything possible to distress her, including his confession of love for her.”

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