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anguished

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an·guished  (nggwsht)
adj.
Feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish: anguished victims of the earthquake; anguished screams for help.
anguished
Adjective
feeling or showing great mental pain: anguished cries
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Adj.1.anguishedanguished - 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
Translations
Spanish anguished [ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj → angustioso
French anguished [ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj (mentally) → angoissé(e);
(physically) → plein(e) de souffrance
German anguished [ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj → gequält
Italian anguished [ˈæŋgwɪʃt] adj → angosciato/a, pieno/a d'angoscia
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Then I heard the anguished bellow of a Himalayan cow-one of the little black crummies no bigger than Newfoundland dogs.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
She looked now for no mercy, nor could she hope to again escape him so easily as she had before, and so she sat with bowed head in the bottom of the swiftly moving craft, buried in anguished thoughts, hopeless and miserable.
The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Anne had gathered them and brought them to him, her anguished, tearless eyes burning in her white face.
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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