extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony
to afflict or be afflicted with anguish
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
an•guish /ˈæŋgwɪʃ/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- great suffering or pain:the anguish of grief.
an•guish
(ang′gwish),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
v.i.
- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain:the anguish of grief.
v.t.
- to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.
v.i.
- to suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish:to anguish over the loss of a loved one.
- Latin angustia tight place, equivalent. to angust(us) narrow + -ia -ia; compare anxious; akin to anger
- Old French
- Middle English anguisse 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged agony, torment, torture. See pain.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged delight, comfort, relief.
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'anguish' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Angerona
- ache
- agonize
- agony
- ai
- anger
- angor
- angst
- anguished
- anxious
- bleed
- bleeding
- depict
- distress
- envy
- excruciate
- grief
- gut-wrenching
- heartache
- heartbreak
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- hell
- katzenjammer
- misery
- pain
- pained
- rack
- sorrow
- sting
- sympathy
- tear
- torment
- torture
- travail
- woe
- wound
- wring