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Distraught

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

    "His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone."

  2. 2
    Mad; insane.
Adjective
  1. 1
    deeply agitated especially from emotion wordnet

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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