forstraught

English

Etymology

From Middle English forstraught, equivalent to for- +‎ straught (“stretched”). Compare bestraught, distraught, etc. More at for-, straught.

Adjective

forstraught (comparative more forstraught, superlative most forstraught)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Distracted.
    • a. 1770, Thomas Chatterton, “The storie of William Canynge”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton‎[1], published 1890:
      My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight
    • 2009, My Lord John‎[2], page 37:
      It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.
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