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单词 distraught
释义
distraught
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstrɔːt/us
/dɪˈstrɑːt/
extremelyworried,nervous, orupset:
极其不安的，非常焦虑的
Themissingchild's distraughtparentsmade anemotionalappealforinformationon TV.失踪儿童的父母极为焦虑，在电视上恳请大家提供相关消息。
Synonym
overwrought
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
feeling sad
  • sadShe's been sad ever since her cat died.
  • unhappyShe'd had a very unhappy childhood.
  • miserableI just woke up feeling miserable.
  • upsetThey'd had an argument and he was still upset about it.
  • broken-heartedShe was broken-hearted when her partner left.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distressed
  • dog
  • doleful
  • dolefully
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • lugubriously
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
  • woeful
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(Definition ofdistraughtfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

distraught| American Dictionary

distraught
adjective
us
/dɪˈstrɔt/
extremelyanxiousandupset:
We were all distraught over thelossofourhomesin theflood.
(Definition ofdistraughtfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistraught

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Adistraughtold woman restrains the old warrior, while two younger men attempt to calm his attackers.
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When the girl in the same story discovered her father's conspiracy, she wasdistraught.
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I suspect that today's students would bedistraughtat the prospect, with no opportunity to seek a tutor's opinion.
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As well as ending in walkouts, these sequences end with one or both of the par ticipants evidently in an indignant ordistraughtstate.
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Distraughtpostmasters and star route riders blamed not the department but their congressional representatives for the eliminations.
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I have seen in courtdistraughtparents who are unable to cope with an errant child, searching for a new avenue of control.
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The more dire his state the less time will there be for thedistraughtspouse, parents or children.
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After many months of taking pills she isdistraughtbecause she has been told that she will not now receive the treatment.
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There are nodistraughtparents or anguished friends.
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They are physically disabled, mentallydistraught, and poisoned.
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I entirely agree with my noble friend; here is a womandistraught.
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She was unable to speak because of her distressed anddistraughtcondition.
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As a result, the man may become sodistraughtthat he is driven to take extreme measures, and even to take his life.
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One became sodistraughtthat she was considered to be an emergency on psychiatric grounds and was later admitted.
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Is it sensible or safe to expectdistraughtparents to act as ambulance drivers and travel to strange towns?
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