Straught Definition
verb
Alternative simple past and past participle of stretch.
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adjective
(obsolete) Distraught.
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Origin of Straught
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From Middle English, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). More at stretch, straight.
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From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
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From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
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