| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·guish |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   ng gw sh |
| NOUN: | Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. See synonyms at regret. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: an·guished, an·guish·ing, an·guish·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause to feel or suffer anguish. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To feel or suffer anguish. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English angwisshe, from Old French anguisse, from Latin angustiae, distress, from angustus, narrow. See angh- in Appendix I.
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