adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Distracted; mad, distraught. obsolete

   "For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught."

Example

More examples

"For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught."

Etymology

From be- + straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.

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