Definitions for anguish

anguish an·guish

Spelling: [ang-gwish]
IPA: /ˈæŋ gwɪʃ/

Anguish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in anguish (aghinsu).

Definitions for anguish

noun

  1. excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain:

verb (used with object)

  1. to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.

verb (used without object)

  1. to suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish:

Origin of anguish

1175-1225; Middle English anguisse Old French Latin angustia tight place, equivalent to angust(us) narrow + -ia -ia; cf. anxious; akin to

Examples for anguish

Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away.

Twice she cried in anguish to Allis that she must go in; must see her husband.

His loss had the bitterness of defeat, with the anguish of a baffled passion.

Her anguish was redoubled by this mysterious and inexplicable struggle within her.

But their suffering and anguish is nothing compared to that of their victims.

But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.

We learn nothing, we take no forward step, except as we are whipped to it by anguish.

There was anguish in the cry torn from the girl's throat in the sudden access of despair.

After mom cries out in anguish and frustration on hearing the verdict, the ugly side of the protests rears its head.

Despite these horrors, the anguish of her abuse is magnified when people ask Walters why she never left her husband.

Word Value for anguish
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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