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Anguished   /ˈæŋgwɪʃt/   Listen
Anguished

adjective
1.
Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.  Synonyms: tormented, tortured.  "A small tormented schoolboy" , "A tortured witness to another's humiliation"


Anguish

verb
1.
Suffer great pains or distress.
2.
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable.  Synonyms: hurt, pain.



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"Anguished" Quotes from Famous Books



... for?" This from Neptune, in a heart-shaken, anguished, rattling whisper. He asked no further questions. He had no doubt. Jake's rolling eyes had told him the ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... him the decorations from the house I am buying?" Elkan exclaimed in anguished tones. "In the first place, I ain't promised him nothing of the kind; and, in the second place, I ain't even ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... She lifted her anguished eyes and looked into his beautiful face. Could she trust him? His little forehead was as hard as a goat's, but his eyes were brimming with tears, and his chin quivered. As they reached the head of the stairs ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
... had their cruel way with me. I am covered with confusion as with a garment while I try to record what followed, though I could not tell it all, even if I would. There is no cruelty like the cruelty of love. For the anguished soul pours out the vials of its remorse and self-reproach upon the well loved head, and fury waxes with ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... and drove madly through the night to the home of Doctor Joliffe. The physician was an elderly and experienced man long-practiced in the art of turning out promptly for these midnight emergencies, and he was pulling on his trousers almost before the door-bell had ceased to ring, but to the anguished gaze of the detective he resembled nothing more than a languid snail with white whiskers. It seemed as if they would never get back to ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston


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