Where does forstraught come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

forstraught

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight"
"It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught."

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

more forstraught (comparative) most forstraught (superlative)

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