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distraught

[dih-strawt]

adjective

  1. distracted; deeply agitated.

  2. mentally deranged; crazed.



distraught

/ ɪˈٰɔː /

adjective

  1. distracted or agitated

  2. raremad

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • distraughtly adverb
  • overdistraught adjective
  • undistraught adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of distraught1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English variant of obsolete distract “distracted,” by association with straught, old past participle of stretch; distract
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of distraught1

C14: changed from obsolete distract through influence of obsolete straught, past participle of stretch
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As she and other residents continued documenting, Meltzer came across a distraught woman who was the wife of the man the federal agents had just arrested.

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This California woman is distraught over what she sees in Los Angeles and an "attack" on immigrants by the Trump administration.

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Three years ago, the image of a distraught Coco Gauff crying under a towel was one of the rawest moments from a one-sided French Open women's final.

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The coroner embraced Zhihan's distraught mother after recording a verdict of accidental death.

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In Santa Ana and Los Angeles, those agents wore masks, surrounded migrants as they came out of court and often left family members watching distraught and in tears.

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