adjective
definition
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
example
His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
definition
Mad; insane.
Examples of distraught in a Sentence
Jenn's distraught features gazed up at him, and he felt bad again for causing her any sort of pain.
He was happy to be out of the dining room where Brandon Westlake and Pumpkin Green, both distraught over Billy Langstrom's death, were pressing Dean for details.
When she opened her eyes, she was distraught to see the cozy living room of her father's apartment.
He shook his head, obviously still distraught by the mere thought of it.
Maybe he was so distraught that he turned to Dulce for comfort.
Distraught, she lay down on the bed and stared at the flame in the lantern.
I did not know you were so distraught.
They rode back to Atlanta in silence, hers distraught, his pensive.
The rest of us were equally distraught, especially Howie.
She was distraught about something, though he couldn't fathom what might distress her if the news of his sisters' impending babes and complete loss of honor did not.
Dean didn't go into any detail explaining why he had not gone to the Norfolk Police Station the prior evening—he just mumbled that he had a very distraught widow on his hands.
Jessi was rubbing her face, distraught.
You were too distraught to speak, he answered.
So distraught, she quits the intern program.
I was so distraught I nearly bit through my bottom lip.
She looked in the mirror, distraught, then scrubbed her face and turned off the shower.
She shuts the door on him and he leaves distraught.
A distraught child whose parents have left for work is not ready to hear a story.
She was agitated to the point of distraught.
None of this made sense, yet it had to be true for him to be this distraught.
Howie was distraught over the encounter and Martha, apologetic over wasting the day.
Dean didn't go into any detail explaining why he had not gone to the Norfolk Police Station the prior evening—he just mumbled that he had a very distraught widow on his hands.
After a brief closed-door session with a distraught Leland Anderson, a press conference was called and held at headquarters.
Mom and Dad moved but Poncho did not fit in their plans, so off they drove leaving the dog distraught.
This is a nice note to end an otherwise emotionally distraught album.
Will ' Osama ' - as another kid helpfully names the understandably distraught girl - be found out?
Pete, on the other hand who is picking up the bill for dinner, is completely distraught.
Williams looked distraught - her father, Richard, could hardly bear to watch.
This time, former nun turned cleaver, super sleuth, Christine Bennett meets a distraught husband who has an incredible story to relate.
He is the one who helps with funeral arrangements when the female is too distraught.
Whether there were breakup warning signs or not, the person who receives the SMS breakup news as a text message will be left emotionally distraught.
Whether you are one looking to help out a distraught friend who is daytime TV-deprived, or you're the nail biting viewer yourself, you can rest assured it's easy to catch up on lost moments.
Debris fell on Muffit and killed him, leaving Boxey extremely distraught.
The call was from California and Howie was on the line, apparently distraught.
She swallowed her other questions and twisted her hands in her lap, distraught.
Distraught, she was also clearly the mate of the Dark One.
Rissa stood near a large wardrobe, as pale and distraught as she had appeared the night before.
Roy is absolutely distraught, while Kate is resolute.
One day she got jammed in the toilet at school and was totally distraught and spent the next week jamming other children in.
When he fails your perception of him, you begin to feel distraught.
For example, parents can become distraught about their child needing five x-rays.
Distraught, Himeno finds comfort with her stepsister Mawata and solace in the arms of the knight Hayate.
While you don't have to shout from the rooftops that you are distraught, you may want to take some time to acknowledge that you are having difficulty with it.
If a stressful situation occurs, they may feel much more distraught than those who doesn't suffer from the disorder.
So distraught by Chin-Kee is Danny, that he is forced to change schools.
She was so distraught over her alleged altercation with her ex-boyfriend that Tila Tequila got engaged just a few months later.
Just understand that a male grieving the loss of an infant really is sad and distraught, but is not as public with his feelings and emotions as a woman is.
Also, if your child complains of physical pain during the process or is overly emotionally distraught over the whole proposition, there might be other underlying causes that need investigation.
And, if first impressions meant anything, as Dean believed they did, this woman was sincerely distraught over her husband's disappearance.
He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.