Anguish

/ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ · noun

Meaning

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress..

Definitions by Sense

1. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
2. (intransitive) To suffer pain.
3. (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.

Example Sentences

So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.

Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?

Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint, Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and unpittied plaint, Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.

But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid, In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.

May I the sacred pleasures know Of strictest amity, nor ever want A friend with whom I mutually may share Gladness and anguish […]

She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.

A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish—burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.

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Word Forms

• anguishes
• anguishing
• anguished

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