Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected by anguish; expressing or caused by anguish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective suffering anguish; experiencing extreme pain, distress, or anxiety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
anguish . - adjective Experiencing extreme
discomfort ordiscontent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
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Examples
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His expression anguished, he rested one hand on her head, the other tightly covering her nape, guiding her head back.
Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010
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If we are all ‘artists-as-citizens’, and we go about our days perceiving that unique, vast ‘picture’ of our own description, then we will have always lived as artists, here, in anguished times!
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Now, each time she calls her anguished daughter " You sweet girl, " your flesh crawls, just as it ' s supposed to.
' Joe Morgenstern 2010
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As Paul says, all creation groans in anguished anticipation of the day when God's glory will transfigure all things.
Medpundit 2005
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As Paul says, all creation groans in anguished anticipation of the day when God's glory will transfigure all things.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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The king’s tracer tossed and turned, his expression anguished.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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The king’s tracer tossed and turned, his expression anguished.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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The king’s tracer tossed and turned, his expression anguished.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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The king’s tracer tossed and turned, his expression anguished.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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The king’s tracer tossed and turned, his expression anguished.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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