ANGUISH
Dictionary entry overview: What does anguish mean?
• ANGUISH (noun)
The noun ANGUISH has 2 senses:
1. extreme mental distress
2. extreme distress of body or mind
Familiarity information: ANGUISH used as a noun is rare.
• ANGUISH (verb)
The verb ANGUISH has 2 senses:
1. suffer great pains or distress
2. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
Familiarity information: ANGUISH used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANGUISH (noun)
Meaning:
Extreme mental distress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
anguish; torture; torment
Hypernyms ("anguish" is a kind of...):
distress; hurt; suffering (psychological suffering)
Meaning:
Extreme distress of body or mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anguish" is a kind of...):
distress (a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need))
• ANGUISH (verb)
Meaning:
Suffer great pains or distress
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Hypernyms (to "anguish" is one way to...):
suffer (endure (emotional pain))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue anguish over the results of the experiment
Meaning:
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
anguish; pain; hurt
Context example:
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
Hypernyms (to "anguish" is one way to...):
discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)
Cause:
suffer (endure (emotional pain))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "anguish"):
break someone's heart (cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody)
agonise; agonize (cause to agonize)
try (give pain or trouble to)
excruciate; rack; torment; torture (torment emotionally or mentally)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The bad news will anguish him
