Anguish Definition

ănggwĭsh

anguishes

noun

anguishes

Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment.

American Heritage

Great suffering, as from worry, grief, or pain; agony.

Webster's New World

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verb

anguishes

To cause to feel or suffer anguish.

American Heritage

To cause to feel anguish.

Webster's New World

To feel anguish.

Webster's New World

To feel or suffer anguish.

American Heritage

(intransitive) To suffer pain.

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Other Word Forms of Anguish

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anguish

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

From Wiktionary
Middle English angwisshe from Old French anguisse from Latin angustiae distress from angustus narrow angh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition