anguish
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ//
- //ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡwɪʃ//
- //ˈɛ̃ŋ.ɡwɪʃ//
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.
noun
- 1
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.
It took years to overcome the anguish from my wife's death.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
verb
- 1
To suffer pain.
c. 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
To cause to suffer pain.
Etymology
From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).
Forms
- plural
- anguishes
- past tense
- anguished
- past participle
- anguished
- present participle
- anguishing
- third person singular
- anguishes
anguish · Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.
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