Definition of anguish
Nouns
extreme mental distress
extreme distress of body or mind
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distress
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
Verbs
suffer great pains or distress
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suffer
experience (emotional) pain
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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break someone's heart
cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody
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agonise, agonize
cause to agonize
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try
give pain or trouble to
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excruciate, rack, torment, torture
torment emotionally or mentally
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discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset
cause to lose one's composure
Vocabulary Lists for anguish
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Chapters 8-15 »(708 words)
Vocabulary study list for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The...
- premeditate
- symbolising
- abase
- discern
- endue
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Intro + Chapters 1-7 »(650 words)
Vocabulary study list for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The...
- embroider
- imbue
- ignominy
- decapitate
- scaffold
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Chapters 16-24 »(619 words)
Vocabulary study list for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The...
- estranged
- scaffold
- gesticulate
- pillory
- stigma
- abbreviate
- catharsis
- unconstrained
- devastate
- problematic