anguish

[An·guish]

The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress. A trip to the dentist might cause a cavity prone person a lot of anguish.

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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Noun
extreme mental distress

Noun
extreme distress of body or mind

Verb
cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

Verb
suffer great pains or distress


n.
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

v. t.
To distress with extreme pain or grief.


Anguish

An"guish , n. [OE. anguishe, anguise, angoise, F. angoisse, fr. L. angustia narrowness, difficulty, distress, fr. angustus narrow, difficult, fr. angere to press together. See Anger.] Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child.
Rarely used in the plural: -
Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
Syn. -- Agony; pang; torture; torment. See Agony.

Anguish

An"guish, v. t. [Cf. F. angoisser, fr. L. angustiare.] To distress with extreme pain or grief. [R.] Temple.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

To distress with extreme pain or grief.

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Usage Examples

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

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