distraught

adj

Etymology: From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.

1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

   “His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.”

   “[…]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.”

2. Mad; insane.