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mental anguish

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Noun1.mental anguish - sustained dull painful emotion
painfulness, pain - emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"


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Bodily inconvenience and mental anguish may be included, but the average courts are not, as a rule, swayed by sentiment.
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Having brought their conversation to this satisfactory end, they parted: Dennis, to pursue his design, and take another walk about his farm; Miss Miggs, to launch, when he left her, into such a burst of mental anguish (which she gave them to understand was occasioned by certain tender things he had had the presumption and audacity to say), that little Dolly's heart was quite melted.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
He could imagine the man's mental anguish as he became weakened from hunger and maddened by thirst, knowing that sooner or later he must slip exhausted to the ground where waited the gaunt man-eater.
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