Definitions for Pang

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Spelling: [pang]
IPA: /pæŋ/

Pang is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Pang (agnp).

Definitions for Pang

noun

  1. a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing:
  2. a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm:

Origin of Pang

First recorded in 1495-1505; origin uncertain

Examples for Pang

A pang as of death went through her at the thought that she had not spoken.

I felt a pang of shame—it was time to take my sons to Africa.

As he moved into view, he must have felt a pang of anxiety, even fear.

If Barack Obama—or any of his other senior aides—felt a pang about the departure of Axe and Gibbs, they did not show it.

If there was a pang, Betty pretended to herself that there was none.

Here the pang suddenly struck her; she was not so numb, after all!

Viewers catching up with The Julian Assange Show may now experience a reality-TV buzz followed by a pang of anxiety.

There was a pride in the statement with regard to which my first feeling was a pang of envy.

It is impossible to watch the 'fillers' at work without feeling a pang of envy for their toughness.

She could never have believed she could have felt such a pang.

Word Value for Pang
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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