Both Uses of
distraught
in
Great Expectations
- At length, not coming out of her distraught state by degrees, but in an instant, Miss Havisham said, "Let me see you two play cards; why have you not begun?"†
Chpt 11 *distraught = extremely distressed
- I use the word natural, in the sense of its being unaffected; there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have been downright ludicrous but for his own perception that it was very near being so.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
extremely distressed--typically with worry or grief that interferes with clear thinking