Meaning of anguish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
   countable, uncountable
3. A male given name.
   rare
4. Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. See Synonyms at regret.
5. To cause to feel or suffer anguish.
6. To feel or suffer anguish.
7. A state of physical or mental suffering:affliction, agony, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness.
8. To bring great harm or suffering to:afflict, agonize, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, strike, torment, torture.
9. very great pain of body or mind; agony. The woman suffered terrible anguish when her child died. smart, angs ألَم شِديد силна болка angústia muka, bolest, úzkost die Qual kval; pine; smerte οδύνηangustia piin رنج و اندوه شدید tuska angoisse יסורים, ייסורים वेदना agonija kín kesedihan kvöl; angist angoscia 激しい苦痛 고통 skausmas, kančia ciešanas; mokas kedukaan leedkval, pine, angstudręka, boleść شدید رنځ او غم angústia chin мучение muky tesnoba patnja pina, kval, ångest ความรวดร้าว şiddetli ıstıra...
10. extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony
11. to afflict or be afflicted with anguish
12. acute suffering or pain: the anguish of grief.
13. to inflict with suffering or pain.

Equivalents

Examples

“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?”

“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.”

“But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.”

“There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid, In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.”

“May I the sacred pleasures know Of strictest amity, nor ever want A friend with whom I mutually may share Gladness and anguish […]”

“She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.”

“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.”

“In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,) Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide, I dream, I dream, I dream.”

“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. […]”

“On motion of Mr. Anguish, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to House Bill No. 115 by the following vote: Those voting yea were: Representatives Adams (Wm. H.), Adamson, Allen, Anderson (W. M.), Anguish, Aspinwall, Atkinson […]”

“[…] 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.”

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