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Amid the pandemonium, Cobolli comforted Bergs as his distraught opponent sat on the Belgium team bench with his head in his hands.

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"If it doesn't reopen, we will be distraught."

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Outside the door all seemed quiet, but the moment she entered, each of the children assumed a pose of distraught misery, accompanied by moans and feverish gibbering.

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“Oh, the children were distraught! They howled up a storm, and later kept repeating some odd words the woman said to them: ‘The hunt is on.’

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As news of the tragedy broke, distraught relatives have been speaking to the media.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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