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distraught

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈtɹɔːt/ (UK)

Definition of distraught

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
    “His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.”
    “[…]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.”
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adj

  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
    “His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.”
    “[…]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.”
  2. Mad; insane.

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Etymology

From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.

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