Distraught

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distracted}, old p.
     p. {Distraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distracting}.]
     1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
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              A city . . . distracted from itself.  --Fuller.


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     2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different
        directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
        eye; to distract the attention.
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              Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
        motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
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              Horror and doubt distract
              His troubled thoughts.                --Milton.
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     4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
        madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
        distracted.
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              A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distraught \Dis*traught"\, p. p. & a. [OE. distract, distrauht.
     See {Distract}, a.]
     1. Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . .
        distraught." --Spenser.
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     2. Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity."
        --Spenser.
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              As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror.
                                                    --Shak.
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              To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls
              Which are the most distraught and full of pain.
                                                    --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  distraught
       adj : deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
             grief" [syn: {overwrought}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "distraught":
     abashed, abnormal, abroad, addled, adrift, agitated, astray,
     at sea, batty, bereft of reason, berserk, bewildered, bothered,
     brainsick, clueless, concerned, confused, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazed, crazy, daft, delirious, deluded, demented,
     deprived of reason, deranged, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed,
     disoriented, distracted, distrait, distressed, disturbed,
     embarrassed, excited, feverish, flighty, flustered, frantic,
     frenetic, frenzied, guessing, hallucinated, harassed, hysterical,
     in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, insane,
     irrational, loco, lost, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed,
     mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, muddled,
     nervous, non compos, non compos mentis, nonplussed, not all there,
     not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, off the track,
     overwrought, perturbed, psycho, put-out, queer, rambling,
     reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange,
     tetched, tormented, touched, troubled, turned around, unbalanced,
     unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, upset, wandering, wild,
     without a clue, witless, worked up, wrought up