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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. See Synonyms at regret.
  2. v. To cause to feel or suffer anguish.
  3. v. To feel or suffer anguish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Excruciating or agonizing pain of either body or mind; acute suffering or distress.
  2. n. An overwhelming emotion.
  3. n. Synonyms Agony, Anguish, Pang, etc. See agony and grief.
  4. To distress with excruciating pain or grief.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  2. v. To suffer pain.
  3. v. To cause to suffer pain.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  2. v. To distress with extreme pain or grief.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. suffer great pains or distress
  2. n. extreme distress of body or mind
  3. v. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
  4. n. extreme mental distress

Etymologies

  1. Middle English angwisshe, from Old French anguisse, from Latin angustiae, distress, from angustus, narrow; see angh- in Indo-European roots.

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  • Kristianto2010 In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly. 1 Samuel 1 : 10 Jan 3, 2011

  • bilby A fairly well-known rhyme translated into Anguish:

    Sinker sucker socks pants
    Apocryphal awry
    Foreign turnkey blank boards
    Bagged inner pyre.
    Whinny pious orphaned
    Door boards bay-gander sink.
    Worsen dizzy jelly ditch
    Toe setter furry kink?
    Sep 16, 2009

‘anguish’ has been looked up 2764 times, loved by 5 people, added to 47 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 11.