to anguish
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7.3
- verb
- /ˈæŋɡwɪʃ/
:
angustiar
- He anguished for days after making a difficult decision that hurt others.
For more than a year, I have anguished over what's wrong with Donald Trump's stupidity, madness, evil, disease, injury.
- For more than a year, I have anguished over what's wrong with Donald Trump's stupidity, madness, evil, disease, injury.
Examples
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My mother anguished over my future.
Fiction book (1996) -
I have anguished over the matter, and I cannot marry you.
Fiction book (1999) -
We anguish over this situation.
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Of course I anguish for the suffering of your boy.
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In past years, she would anguish for weeks before the anniversary.
Fiction book (2002) -
His high standards caused him to truly anguish over the state into which the universities, and intellectual life generally, seemed to him to have fallen.
Academic text (1995) -
As I performed and met with some success, I anguished over my right to play black music.
Fiction book (1996) -
Noah, a junior at a private college, anguished over the loss of college study time because of his roommate.
Academic text (2006) -
We anguished over the proper course of action, not wishing to alienate our colleagues.
Academic text (2002) -
And I anguished with them both when DiMaggio's favorite bat was stolen between games of that crucial double-header in Washington.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
Make someone suffer physical or emotional pain
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2.0
To feel pain or be ill
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7.2
To cause someone to feel great physical or mental pain
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4.8
To make someone feel sick or have pain in the body
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6.0
Cause pain or trouble to people, animals and places
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4.9
To make someone feel sad or upset
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4.1
Cause someone to feel pain, worry or serious problems
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4.6
To cause pain, trouble, or illness to someone
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9.9
To cause someone very great physical or mental pain
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6.8
To make someone feel very strong pain or deep worry
Compounds
How Painful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anguish as a verb comes from the same Latin root angere 'to choke' and keeps the idea of causing that tight, painful feeling, so to anguish someone is to make them suffer deep pain or worry.