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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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a little hope, but the hope died, and anguish, anguish, _anguish_ took its place.
Ayesha, the Return of She Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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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!
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall
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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.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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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.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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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 2010
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To give a material representation to anguish is in itself to be freed from it.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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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"?
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012
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If you call your anguish "the mental disorder of depression," does calling it that make it a "mental disorder"?
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012
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