anguish

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/ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/

verb 2name 2noun 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

bitter, deep, great, real | inner, personal, private | mental, physical, spiritual

VERB + ANGUISH

cause

Years of waiting for news about her missing son caused her deep anguish.

experience, feel, suffer

She felt deep anguish when she realized she had missed her daughter's graduation ceremony.

PREP

in (sb's) ~

The injured player lay on the ground in anguish after the tackle went wrong.

with ~

She couldn't sleep that night, lying awake with anguish about her daughter's safety.

~ at/over

She felt deep anguish over the decision to move her elderly parents to a nursing home.

PHRASES

a cry/groan/scream of anguish, pain and anguish

When the test results came back, she let out a cry of anguish that echoed through the hospital corridor.

Definitions

noun

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

So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.

Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?

verb

To suffer pain.

c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.

To cause to suffer pain.

name

A surname.

Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton

By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]

A male given name.

[…] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — extreme mental distress

verb — cause emotional anguish or make miserable

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.

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Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?

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Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint, Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and unpittied plaint, Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.

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Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton

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By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, anguish is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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