distraughtly








adjective

  1. distracted; deeply agitated.
  2. mentally deranged; crazed.

adjective

  1. distracted or agitated
  2. rare mad
adj.

late 14c., alteration (Englishing) of earlier distract (perhaps by association with other past participle forms in -ght, such as caught, bought, brought), mid-14c., past participle of distracten “derange the intellect of, drive mad” (see distract).

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