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  2. Anguish definition: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain. See examples of ANGUISH used in a sentence.

  3. Definition of anguish noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  4. anguish. noun. A state of physical or mental suffering: affliction agony distress hurt misery pain torment torture woe wound wretchedness. verb. To bring great harm or suffering to: afflict agonize curse excruciate plague rack scourge smite strike torment torture.

  5. 5 days ago · excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain. the anguish of grief. transitive verb. 2. to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain. intransitive verb. 3. to suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish. to anguish over the loss of a loved one.

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    enPR: ăngʹ-gwĭsh, IPA(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
    Rhymes: -æŋɡwɪʃ

    From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.

    From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier,from the noun (see Etymology 1).

    “anguish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
    “anguish”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  6. ANGUISH definition: extreme suffering, especially mental suffering: . Learn more.

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