Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of flurry
comparative more flurried · superlative most flurried
- Agitated, confused.
“Come, come,” he said, “you are flurried, Mr. Lockwood. Here, take a little wine.”
1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, section I1 more example
I met one of your dons at tea, and he said that your degree was not in the least a proof of your abilities: he said that you knocked up and got flurried in examinations.
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 87]
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