Both Uses of
distraught
in
Antigone
- Bring forth the older; even now I saw her Within the palace, frenzied and distraught.†
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- So at the bidding of our distraught lord We looked, and in the craven's vaulted gloom I saw the maiden lying strangled there, A noose of linen twined about her neck; And hard beside her, clasping her cold form, Her lover lay bewailing his dead bride Death-wedded, and his father's cruelty.†
Definition:
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(distraught) extremely distressed--typically with worry or grief that interferes with clear thinking