All 4 Uses of
distraught
in
War and Peace
- He could distinctly see the distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who evidently did not realize what they were doing.†
Chpt 3 *
- A young man, looking distraught, pounced down on the ladies, asking them to move aside.†
Chpt 6
- The prince tried to comfort her, but Helene, as if quite distraught, said through her tears that there was nothing to prevent her marrying, that there were precedents (there were up to that time very few, but she mentioned Napoleon and some other exalted personages), that she had never been her husband's wife, and that she had been sacrificed.†
Chpt 11
- He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(distraught) extremely distressed--typically with worry or grief that interferes with clear thinking