Usually means: Intense suffering; mental or physical.
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  1. anguish: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. anguish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. anguish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. anguish: Free Dictionary

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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 (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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

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