Usually means: Intense suffering; mental or physical.
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  1. anguish: Merriam-Webster
  2. anguish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anguish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anguish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anguish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anguish, anguish: Wordnik
  7. anguish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Anguish, anguish: Wiktionary
  9. anguish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anguish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anguish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Anguish, anguish: Dictionary.com
  13. anguish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anguish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Anguish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Anguish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anguish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anguish: Rhymezone
  19. anguish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anguish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anguish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anguish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. anguish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. anguish: FreeDictionary.org
  25. anguish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. anguish: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anguish: Legal dictionary

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  1. anguish: Encyclopedia

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  1. anguish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Anguish)

▸ noun:  Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To suffer pain.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (rare) A male given name.

Similar:
pain, torture, torment, hurt, agonizing, agony, agonising, agonization, extreme, exigent, more...

Opposite:
joy, contentment, happiness, relief, pleasure

Types:
misery, agony, torment, suffering, woe, more...

Phrases:
mental anguish, pear of anguish, howl in anguish, squint in anguish, opposite of anguish, more...

Adjectives:
mental, great, such, much, deep, bitter, personal, terrible, physical, extreme, mortal

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Similar:
pain, torture, torment, hurt, agonizing, agony, agonising, agonization, extreme, exigent, more...

Opposite:
joy, contentment, happiness, relief, pleasure

Types:
misery, agony, torment, suffering, woe, more...

Phrases:
mental anguish, pear of anguish, howl in anguish, squint in anguish, opposite of anguish, cry of anguish, expresses anguish, anguish scream, causes great anguish, loud anguish, anguish of mind or body, more...

Adjectives:
mental, great, such, much, deep, bitter, personal, terrible, physical, extreme, mortal

Colors:
    dark gray,     black,     deep red,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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