anguish
Plural: anguishes
Noun
- extreme mental distress
- extreme distress of body or mind
- Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Verb
Verb Forms: anguished, anguishing, anguishes
- To be extremely distressed about something.
- suffer great pains or distress
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- To suffer pain.
- To cause to suffer pain.
Examples
- She will ANGUISH over her decision not to play ZA when she had the chance.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
hurt, pain, torment, torture, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agony, anguish, anguishment, bereavement, calvary, cross, dere, difficulty, distress, excruciate, grief, hardship, irritate, living death, pang, passion, pine, rack, rend, smart, suffer, thole, throe, trouble, wark, wring
Scrabble Score: 11
anguish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordanguish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
anguish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary