Distraught
Distraught adjective - Feeling overwhelming fear or worry.
Usage example: distraught relatives waiting to learn whether there were any survivors of the plane crash
Nuclear and distraught are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nuclear" instead an adjective "Distraught".
Nuclear
Nuclear adjective - Constituting or like a nucleus.
Distraught and nuclear are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distraught" instead an adjective "Nuclear".
Nearby Words: nucleus, nuclearization
Both words in one sentence
- Then, as a distraught Sarah watches, the nuclear holocaust begins, burning everything around her and revealing the Terminator's terrifying endoskeleton... and she wakes up.
Source: Action Prologue -
Dr. Entmann: Jonas thought the survivors of a nuclear holocaust might be too distraught to function as a society underground, so he wanted to pump small amounts of mood-enhancing drugs into the ventilation system.
Source: My Beloved Smother -
The trope is quickly reversed when the distraught Superman ignoring Jor-El's admonition to not alter human history reverses time to the point where Lex Luthor unleashed his evil plan (setting off the above ground nuclear explosion), and thus saves Lois.
Source: I Let Gwen Stacy Die
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