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   distraught

   /dɪˈstrɔːt/

   adjective

   • 1. very worried and upset: "distraught parents looking for a runaway teenager"

   Word Origin late Middle English: alteration of the obsolete adjective distract (from Latin distractus ‘pulled apart’), influenced by straught, archaic past participle of stretch.

   Scrabble Points: 15

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