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Etymology
From Old English anguishe, anguise, angoise, French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“‘narrowness, difficulty, distress’”) from angustus (“‘narrow, difficult’”) from angere (“‘to press together’”). See anger.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular anguish |
Plural countable and uncountable; plural anguishes |
anguish (countable and uncountable; plural anguishes)
- Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
- 1889,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
- A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish—burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
- 1889,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
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Verb
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Infinitive to anguish |
Third person singular anguishes |
Simple past anguished |
Past participle anguished |
Present participle anguishing |
to anguish (third-person singular simple present anguishes, present participle anguishing, simple past and past participle anguished)
- (intransitive) To suffer pain.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): 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.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
Translations
suffer pain
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External links
- anguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anguish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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