Synonyms:
distraught, overwrought
Meaning: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"
Usage examples
He started back, distraught.
"Run up, Walter," Sir John exclaimed, "maybe the countess is distraught with her sorrows."
There was nothing significant in the fact that Louise, dreamy and distraught, stood at her bedroom bureau that night, scribbling "Washington" here and there over a sheet of paper.
Yet in the end, altogether distraught by love, this prudent varlet sought his friend, and showed her his case, saying that he urgently required of her that she would flee with him, for no longer could he endure the weariness of his days.
Where is the young man, the son of yonder magnanimous King?" And quoth the Wazir, "O mighty King, thou didst command him be put to death." When the King heard this, he was clean distraught and cried out from his heart's core and in-most of head, saying, "Woe to you!