DISTRAUGHT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | di'strot
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| Matching Terms: | | Distraughted
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [adj] deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" |
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| | Synonyms: | | agitated, overwrought |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*traught"\, p. p. & a. [OE. distract, distrauht.
See {Distract}, a.]
1. Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] ``His greedy throat . . .
distraught.'' --Spenser.
2. Distracted; perplexed. ``Distraught twixt fear and pity.''
--Spenser.
As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror.
--Shak.
To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are
the most distraught and full of pain. --Mrs.
Browning.
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