Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. synonym: regret.
- intransitive verb To cause to feel or suffer anguish.
- intransitive verb To feel or suffer anguish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excruciating or agonizing pain of either body or mind; acute suffering or distress.
- noun An overwhelming emotion.
- noun Synonyms Agony, Anguish, Pang, etc. See
agony and grief. - To distress with excruciating pain or grief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
- transitive verb rare To distress with extreme pain or grief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Extreme pain , either of body or mind;excruciating distress . - verb intransitive To
suffer pain . - verb transitive To cause to suffer pain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb suffer great pains or distress
- noun extreme distress of body or mind
- verb cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- noun extreme mental distress
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a little hope, but the hope died, and anguish, anguish, _anguish_ took its place.
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The Phillies watch in anguish from the dugout as their season nears its conclusion with a 7-3 loss in Game 6 of the World Series against the host Yankees on Wednesday night.
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The remedies resorted to, afforded temporary relief; and great was her thankfulness for the alleviation from what she described as anguish -- anguish -- anguish!
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Carruth's anguish is part of a common but little talked about consequence of the summer of oil: People overcome by stress and worry, who are having a hard time navigating a world that seems so different from the one they knew before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, sending waves of crude and tar balls toward the coast.
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Carruth's anguish is part of a common but little talked about consequence of the summer of oil: People overcome by stress and worry, who are having a hard time navigating a world that seems so different from the one they knew before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, sending waves of crude and tar balls toward the coast.
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To give a material representation to anguish is in itself to be freed from it.
Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
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To give a material representation to anguish is in itself to be freed from it.
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Apparently, BDS is still in force because Obama is continuing all of the Bush sins, yet with no corresponding anguish from the leftlings ...
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If you call your anguish "the mental disorder of depression," does calling it that make it a "mental disorder"?
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If you call your anguish "the mental disorder of depression," does calling it that make it a "mental disorder"?
bilby commented on the word anguish
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?
September 16, 2009
Kristianto2010 commented on the word anguish
In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly. 1 Samuel 1 : 10
January 3, 2011