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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “DISTRACTED”

DISTRACTED a.
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
DISTRACTEDLY adv.
Disjointedly; madly. Shak.
DISTRACTEDNESS n.
A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall.
BESTRAUGHT a.
Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.
DISTRACT v. 2 definitions
To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller.
DISTRACTIBLE a.
Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
DISTRAUGHT p.
Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity." Spenser. As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. Mrs. Browning.
DISTRAUGHTED a.
Distracted. [Obs.] Spenser.
DISWITTED a.
Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. [Obs.] Drayton.
FORSTRAUGHT p.
Distracted. [Obs.] Chaucer.
FRANTIC a.
Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.
FRENETIC a.
Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton.
INSANE a.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
RUN v.
in debt. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted Addison.
START n.
A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. For she did speak in starts distractedly. Shak. Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. L'Estrange.
SYMPATHIZE v.
nd will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.
WILDLY adv.
In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.