Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of pangs; tortured; suffering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of pangs.
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- adjective Full of
pangs .
Etymologies
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pang + -ful
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Examples
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More he would have said; but, overwhelmed with grief and infirmity, he bowed his head upon his pangful bosom, endeavouring to hide from the sight of the hardened Mowbray, who just then entered the room, those tears which he could not restrain.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The cool wind still blew like whispered consolation for a great, a pangful loss, but it could not soften the hard hearts of those who had stood with lips to the fountain of life and been denied.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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Forfeited soon in the pangful surrender to Sense and to Sorrow!
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