adjective
- distracted; deeply agitated.
- mentally deranged; crazed.
adjective
- distracted or agitated
- rare mad
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).