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Meaning of anguish | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. See Synonyms at regret.
  2. To cause to feel or suffer anguish.
  3. To feel or suffer anguish.
  4. A state of physical or mental suffering:affliction, agony, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness.
  5. To bring great harm or suffering to:afflict, agonize, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, strike, torment, torture.
  6. 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...
  7. extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony
  8. to afflict or be afflicted with anguish
  9. acute suffering or pain: the anguish of grief.
  10. to inflict with suffering or pain.

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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