bestraught

English

Alternative forms

• bestrought

Etymology

From be- +‎ straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.

Adjective

bestraught (comparative more bestraught, superlative most bestraught)

1. (obsolete) Distracted; mad, distraught.
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.

Derived terms

• bestraughted

Further reading

• N[athan] Bailey (1721) “BESTROUGHT”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1.

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