anguish
extreme mental distress
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,800 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,915 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- extreme mental distress also: torment, torture
- extreme distress of body or mind
verb
- suffer great pains or distress
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable also: pain, hurt It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
anguish in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The anguish which Finance has cost an artistic soul no one may ever know.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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If heat or cold may mitigate your anguish, I'll burn, I'll freeze, but you shall be recovered.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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But the pain on his face and the anguish in his voice were an instant passport to the other's heart.
Four Weird Tales · Algernon Blackwood · Chapter 2
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The life of the Favorals during these interminable days of anguish and suffering, was that of a hundred thousand other families.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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This accomplished, she had only to wait, and sit in tearless anguish at the window, listening intently whenever a horseman rode past.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1