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distraught
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[dɪˈstrɔːt], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- very worried and upset
(e.g: distraught parents looking for a runaway teenager)
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Origin
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late Middle English: alteration of the obsolete adjective distract (from Latin distractus ‘pulled apart’), influenced by straught, archaic past participle of stretch
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