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1
feeling overwhelming fear or worry
- we were delirious with anxiety when the boy failed to return home
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- agitated,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- hysterical
- (also hysteric)
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2
marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity
- rushing about in a delirious state during the holidays
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The first known use of delirious was in 1599
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