anguish

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 External links

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: ăngʹ-gwĭsh, IPA: /ˈæŋgwɪʃ/, SAMPA: /"{NgwIS/
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[edit] Noun

anguish (countable and uncountable; plural anguishes)

1. 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• agony
• calvary
• cross
• pang
• torture
• torment
• See also Wikisaurus:agony

[edit] Related terms

• anger
• anxiety
• anxious

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[edit] Verb

to anguish (third-person singular simple present anguishes, present participle anguishing, simple past and past participle anguished)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.

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[edit] External links

• anguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• anguish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911