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Etymology
From be- + straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.
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bestraught (comparative more bestraught, superlative most bestraught)
- (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 Richardson; , →OCLC:For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.
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