an·guished

(ăng′gwĭsht)

adj.

Feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish: anguished victims of the earthquake; anguished screams for help.

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anguished

(ˈæŋɡwɪʃt)

adj

feeling or expressing anguish

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

an•guished

(ˈæŋ gwɪʃt)

adj.

1. feeling, showing, or accompanied by anguish.

2. produced by anguish.

[1350–1400]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

anguished - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

tormented, tortured

sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

anguished

adjective suffering, wounded, tortured, distressed, tormented, afflicted, agonized, grief-stricken, wretched, brokenhearted She let out an anguished cry.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Translations

angustiado angustioso

angosciato

anguished

[ˈæŋgwɪʃt] ADJ (physically) → atormentado de dolor; (mentally) → angustiado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

anguished

[ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj

(mentally) [person] → angoissé(e); [face, expression] → angoissé(e); [voice, cry] → angoissé(e)

(physically) [person] → pris(e) par la douleur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

anguished

adj → qualvoll

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

anguished

[ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj (expression, look) → angosciato/a; (cry) → angoscioso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken, At memories of foul disgrace.

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