straught

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /stɹɔːt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). More at stretch, straight.

Verb

straught

  1. alternative simple past and past participle of stretch

Etymology 2

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

Alternative forms

Verb

straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)

  1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight.

Adjective

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

  1. (Scotland) straight

Etymology 3

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

Adjective

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

  1. (obsolete) Distraught.
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