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distraught
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A policewoman was trying to calm the boy's distraught mother. ▪ Benson was so distraught over the breakup of his marriage that he committed suicide. ▪ Casey was totally distraught that they were throwing him out of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted , old p. p. Distraught ; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting .] To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" [syn: overwrought ]
Usage examples of distraught.
Like Washington and many others, Adams had become increasingly distraught over the rise of political divisiveness, the forming of parties or factions.
Her expression revealed nothing, but Banks could tell from her brusque body language that she was distraught.
She would rip at his clothes, trying desperately to fellate the confused and distraught object of her desire, her scarlet talons reducing his shit-stained jockeys to flapping curtains of tatters and blood.
He was distraught when he was unable to accept an invitation from Roger Greenaway to attend the annual dinner of the Society of Distinguished Songwriters.
They had been summoned by a in response to a 911 call by a distraught neighbor of the Hearts, Mrs.
Distraught over his divorce, the man had opened fire with a rifle, picking off six women shoppers and a saleslady before the police apprehended him.
Skillen, the stagekeeper, Hugh Wegges, the tireman, Will Fowler, one of the players, John Tallis, an apprentice, Matthew Lipton, the scrivener, and the distraught Peter Digby, leader of the musicians, who was still mortified that he had sent Richard the Lionheart to his grave with the wrong funeral march.
Dust motes floated in the subdued rays of light that played on the heads and shoulders of the congregation and there was movement everywhere, bodies shifting on the benches, distraught children waving their arms in the air, Blackshirts patrolling the centre aisle, weapons at the ready.
I would guess that Cheryl Anne was hounding him at home to reinstate Thud, and using the column to keep him in a distraught frame of mind at school.
Zefram Cochrane in the twenty-first century and we saw Earth in a very distraught state.
When a distraught Bolian collided with him, knocking him into the sand, Geordi felt himself slipping downward.
And Holger Neumann, distraught at the death of Marx, would most certainly have killed himself.
Like the emotionally battered children of distraught and noncommunicative parents, those in the room would have to choose to which parent they would commit their trust, to the man who could best repair Wallaby and lead the company from its stalled state to a prosperous future.
Considering that she was clearly distraught over the nonliving status of the man upon the ground, I decided that my surmise was accurate.
Victoria, but he was so distraught over Olivia, he let himself go with her, and Olivia reached out and touched his fingers.