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dis·traught
(dĭ-strôt′)adj.
1. Deeply agitated, as from worry or grief.
2. Archaic Mentally deranged.
[Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, to distract; see distract.]
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distraught
(dɪˈstrɔːt)adj
1. (Psychology) distracted or agitated
2. (Psychology) rare mad
[C14: changed from obsolete distract through influence of obsolete straught, past participle of stretch]
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dis•traught
(dɪˈstrɔt)adj.
1. bewildered; deeply agitated.
2. mentally deranged; crazed.
[1350–1400; variant of obsolete distract distracted, by association with straught, old past participle of stretch]
dis•traught′ly, adv.
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See also related terms for worry.
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Adj. | 1. | distraught - deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" agitated - troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents" |
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distraught
adjective frantic, wild, desperate, mad, anxious, distressed, raving, distracted, hysterical, worked-up, agitated, crazed, overwrought, out of your mind, at the end of your tether, wrought-up, beside yourself Her distraught parents were last night being comforted.
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distraught
adjectiveAfflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:
brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.
Chiefly British: crackers.
Law: non compos mentis.
Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad.
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distraught
[dɪsˈtrɔːt] ADJ → afligido, alterado (LAm)in a distraught voice → con una voz embargada por la emoción
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distraught
adj → verzweifelt, außer sich (dat) pred; look, voice → verzweifelt
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distraught
[dɪsˈtrɔːt] adj → stravolto/a, sconvolto/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
distraught
(diˈstroːt) adjective very worried and upset.
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distraught
a. atolondrado-a, confundido-a, desconcertado-a; [irrational] demente.
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