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单词 anguish
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anguishn.

Brit. /ˈaŋɡwɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡwɪʃ/
Forms: Middle English angois, Middle English angoise, Middle English angrice (south-eastern, probably transmission error), Middle English angrise (south-eastern, probably transmission error), Middle English anguice, Middle English anguis, Middle English anguissche, Middle English anguisse, Middle English anguisshe, Middle English angus, Middle English angusse, Middle English anguych, Middle English anguys, Middle English anguysche, Middle English anguyse, Middle English anguyssche, Middle English anguysse, Middle English anguyssh, Middle English angwich, Middle English angwisch, Middle English angwische, Middle English angwise, Middle English angwish, Middle English angwishe, Middle English angwissch, Middle English angwissche, Middle English angwissh, Middle English angwisshe, Middle English angwys, Middle English angwysch, Middle English angwysche, Middle English angwyse, Middle English angwyssch, Middle English angwyssche, Middle English angwyssh, Middle English angwysshe, Middle English angys, Middle English angywysshe, Middle English 1600s anguise, Middle English–1500s anguysch, Middle English–1500s anguyshe, Middle English–1500s anguysshe, Middle English–1600s anguishe, Middle English–1600s anguysh, Middle English– anguish, 1500s angguyshe; Scottish pre-1700 anguis, pre-1700 anguisch, pre-1700 anguische, pre-1700 anguishe, pre-1700 angusne (transmission error), pre-1700 anguysche, pre-1700 anguyshe, pre-1700 angwis, pre-1700 angwisch, pre-1700 angwische, pre-1700 angwys, pre-1700 1700s– anguish.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French angois.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman angois, anguice, anguise, angusse, angwis, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French anguisse, angousse, angoisse (French angoisse ) oppression, physical and moral suffering (e.g. of Christ), extreme physical pain, mental suffering, distress, anxiety, difficult or dangerous situation (all 12th cent.) < classical Latin angustia narrowness, lack of space, narrow space, narrow passage, strait, limitations, restrictions, confinement, imprisonment, restrictedness, shortage, scantiness, critical situation, narrow-mindedness, pettiness, in post-classical Latin also suffering, distress (Vulgate) < angustus narrow, tight (see angust adj.) + -ia suffix1. Compare angustiae n.Compare Old Occitan angoissa , angoisa (c1220), Catalan angústia (late 13th cent.), Spanish angustia (c1200), Portuguese angústia (14th cent.), Italian angoscia (a1294). Specific forms. The forms angrise, angrice (found only in the Ayenbite of inwyt: compare quot. 1340 at sense 2a) probably represent transmission errors, perhaps arising by association of this word with anger n. and related words; compare from the same text angrisi at anguish v. Forms, and see note at that entry.
1.
a. Physical pain or suffering, esp. intense bodily pain; agony, torment.Now rare except with modifying word indicating physical as opposed to mental pain; cf. sense 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > anguish or torment
piningOE
anguishc1225
pinsing?c1225
tormentc1290
afflictiona1382
martyrdomc1384
tormentryc1386
labourc1390
martyryc1390
throea1393
martyre?a1400
cruelty14..
rack?a1425
hacheec1430
prong1440
agonya1450
ragea1450
pang1482
sowing1487
cruciation1496
afflict?1529
torture?c1550
pincha1566
anguishment1592
discruciament1593
excruciation1618
fellness1642
afflictedness1646
pungency1649
perialgia1848
perialgy1857
racking1896
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 525 (MED) Hit þenne þer to kimeð, þet sore, sorhfule angoise, þet stronge & stinkinde stiche, þet unroles uuel, þet pine ouer pine.
c1300 St. Michael (Harl.) in T. Wright Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 140 The bodi..in strong angusse doth smurte.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 212 Hys wounde..for Angwys gan to chyne.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §139 The peyne of helle..is lyk deeth, for the horrible angwissh [c1410 Harl. 7334 anguisshe, c1415 Corpus Oxf. anguyssche, c1415 Lansd. angwysshe, c1425 Petworth angwisshe, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 anguysch].
1526 Treasure of Pore Men f. xvv For the tothe ache..holde it in thy mouthe tyll it be colde & than spytte it out..and thou shalbe delyuered of all anguysshe.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 209 The bloodde beeyng staunched, ye anguyshe of the drye wounde encreaced more and more.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 150 If there be pain of the Stomach, anguish, heat.
1705 Boston News-let. 26 Nov. 2/2 The said Halsing was suddenly taken with an extream pain athwart his Breast; the anguish whereof made him wish that God would stop his breath.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvii. 520 His [sc. Job's] body was full of anguish.
1829 Lancet 21 Feb. 651/1 She was immediately seized with the most tormenting anguish in her loins.
1880 W. Cyples Inq. Proc. Human Exper. iii. 70 The anguish of corns and toothache.
1933 E. van der Veer tr. Chalk Circle in B. H. Clark World Drama 523/2 If she admitted the crimes with which she was charged, it was under the intolerable anguish of torture.
1964 I. Murdoch Ital. Girl (1967) xv. 130 My head was heavy with pain and any movement brought twinges of anguish.
2006 R. B. Brooke Image of St Francis 198 He died without any bodily anguish.
†b. In plural in same sense. Also as a count noun: a bout or episode of physical pain or suffering. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. iv. 31 Anguysshes as of the child berere [a1425 L.V. angwischis as of a womman childynge; 1611 King James the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child; L. parturientis..angustias].
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. mijv/2 I haue suffred many anguysshes, of hungre.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. x. 75 Vaporous pufts coursing hither & thither thorow the body, with pain & anguishes, are greatly to be feared.
1678 E. Fowler Vindic. Friendly Conf. 44 They suffer hunger, and cold, needs and necessities, the tormenting diseases, and anguishes of the body: and at last yield up the Ghost to Death it self.
2.
a. Severe mental suffering or distress; intense grief or sorrow.Now the most common sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun]
tintreghc893
threat971
piningOE
murderOE
anguish?c1225
woea1250
pinec1275
tormentc1290
languorc1300
heartbreakc1330
surcarkingc1330
martyrement1340
threst1340
agonyc1384
martyrdomc1384
tormentryc1386
martyre?a1400
tormentisec1405
rack?a1425
anguishing1433
angorc1450
anguishnessa1475
torture?c1550
heartsickness1556
butchery1582
heartache1587
anguishment1592
living hell1596
discruciation1597
heart-aching1607
throeing1615
rigour1632
crucifixion1648
lancination1649
bosom-hell1674
heart-rending1707
brain-racking1708
tormentation1789
bosom-throe1827
angoisse1910
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 173 Iþe muchele angwise aras þe muchele mede.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3687 Þe bissops..Com wiþ gret procession wiþ gret anguisse & fere Wepinde biuore þe kinge.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 147 Þe on leme þoleþ zuethiche [read zuetliche] of þe oþre þet he him deþ of angrice.
a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 16 (MED) Conforte tho that be in anguysche, trouble, and in heuynes.
1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man sig. eiiv The anguishe of his own conscience telleth him, that he yet wanteth.
1611 Bible (King James) Job vii. 11 I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit. View more context for this quotation
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos I. i. 24 The anguish of despair was so visible in their faces, that the most beautiful were become ghastly.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxiii. 164 You may see with anguish, how much..authority you have lost.
1872 M. J. Holmes Edna Browning xlii. 360 Those who watched by her little dreamed of the bitter anguish which was rending her soul.
1926 J. Street in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 26 His wife, in her anguish, had felt the need to confide in someone.
1969 J. Singer et al. tr. I. B. Singer Estate i. i. 9 I have completely lost all self-respect... It causes me anguish such as I hope you will never experience.
2011 Times 6 Sept. 9/2 He had poured out his anguish in one of six suicide letters addressed to family and friends.
†b. In plural in same sense. Also as a count noun: a bout or episode of severe mental suffering or distress. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxi. 23 Who kepeth his mouth and his tunge, kepeth his soule fro anguysshis [L. ab angustiis].
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) 101/1 What else is our state in this worlde than a tormenting with many greefs, and a troubling with manye anguisshes and anoyances?
1679 L. Jenkins Let. 24 Feb. in S. Pepys Diary & Corr. (1879) VI. 125 An honest man..full of anguishes for his King and his Country.
3. Something which causes difficulty or distress; a source of suffering.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > cause of
evilc897
anguishc1330
discomfortc1405
trouble1591
dree1791
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]
sorrowOE
ail?c1225
scorpion?c1225
dolec1290
angera1325
anguishc1330
cupa1340
aggrievancea1400
discomfortc1405
afflictionc1429
sytec1440
pressurea1500
constraint1509
tenterhook1532
grief1535
annoying1566
troubler1567
griper1573
vexation1588
infliction1590
trouble1591
temptationc1595
load1600
torment1600
wringer1602
sorance1609
inflicting1611
brusha1616
freighta1631
woe-heart1637
ordeala1658
cut-up1782
unpleasure1792
iron maiden1870
mental cruelty1899
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > condition of > stress of weather
anguishc1330
force1614
urgency1660
rack1865
c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) l. 183 (MED) Many anguisse he wole hem ȝiue To suffre here..As hunger and þurst.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxx. 7 Ich deliuered þe, and her þe in hid anguisses [c1400 Trin. Dublin in þin anguys; L. in abscondito tempestatis].
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxv. l. 50 (MED) Angwisch of wedering Made vs hider to go.
1629 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum 245 This surely is an anguish and calamitie insupportable.
1777 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions VI. cxxxix. 211 Are you still rambling about the streets..—a prey to imposture, an anguish to your friends, and a distress to yourself?
1855 James Bright the Shopman vi. 54 One old woman..full of last sayings and last doings, each one of which was an anguish to the hearer.
1913 Harper's Weekly 1 Mar. 17/1 There was no sign of sleep in O'Farrell's eyes. It was an anguish to the watcher to see the strained expectancy of them.
1974 H. Katz Give! xi. 186 Low salaries, tiny offices, and other anguishes imposed upon those who work for a penny-pinching enterprise.
2010 B. Hersh Edward Kennedy i. v. 181 The 1964 Democratic National Convention was..an anguish for the near-in Kennedy entourage.

Compounds

As a modifier, with the sense ‘by anguish’, as in anguish-racked, anguish-stricken, anguish-torn, etc., adjs.
ΚΠ
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 409 In his heart Telemachus that blow Resented, anguish-torn, yet not a tear He shed.
1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 11 Jan. 322 The anguish-stricken wife of Toxaris.
1847 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 534/1 She did not know on whose anguish-riven bosom her head rested.
1880 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 14 Feb. 1/4 His anguish-worn features.
1904 A. E. Waite Knowing Thy Likeness in Coll. Poems 193 Thou ragest, passionful and anguish-tost. Grand art thou then, yet peace is far from thee!
1966 Winnipeg Free Press 14 Oct. 49/4 Brian Macdonald's anguish-racked invention, While the Spider Slept,..made the most telling effect of the evening.
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Dec. d1 As the opera intensifies, the anguish-ravaged Marguerite drowns her baby in a basin of holy water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† anguishadj.

Forms: late Middle English anguissh, 1500s anguis; Scottish pre-1700 angwys.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anguish n.
Etymology: Probably < anguish n., perhaps arising from association of that word with adjectives in -ish suffix1. Compare slightly earlier anguishness n.
Obsolete.
Full of or characterized by anguish; extremely painful or distressing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 56 The moost anguisshyst dethe [Fr. la plus angoisseuse mort] that ony man may endure.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 574 In angwys greiff on grouff so turned he.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 85 For badde thinges and anguis wrecchednesse ben passed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

anguishv.

Brit. /ˈaŋɡwɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡwɪʃ/
Forms: Middle English angrisi (south-eastern, probably transmission error), Middle English anguische, Middle English anguise, Middle English anguisshe, Middle English angusse, Middle English anguysch, Middle English anguysche, Middle English anguyshe, Middle English anguysse, Middle English anguysshe, Middle English angwische, Middle English angwishe, Middle English angwissche, Middle English angwysche, Middle English angwyshe, Middle English aunguysche, Middle English–1500s anguisse, 1500s anghysshe, 1500s– anguish.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French anguissier, angoissier.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman anguissier, anguiser, angusser, Anglo-Norman and Old French anguisser (Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French angoissier, Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French angoisser) to torment, harass, persecute (someone), to suffer anguish (both c1100), (of a wound, famine, etc.) to cause (someone) physical suffering (late 12th cent.), to constrict or constrain (something), (of love, jealousy, etc.) to cause (someone) emotional suffering (both 13th cent.), to cause (someone) extreme anxiety (14th cent.) < post-classical Latin angustiare to compress, narrow, to press hard, to afflict, to torment, (intransitive) to be in difficult circumstances (Vulgate) < classical Latin angustia (see anguish adj.). Compare earlier anguish n.Compare classical Latin angustāre angustate v., and also Old Occitan angoisar , angoissar to cause to suffer anguish, to suffer anguish (13th–14th cent.), Catalan angustiar (early 16th cent.), Spanish angustiar (c1280), Portuguese angustiar (13th cent.), Italian angosciare (a1250). Specific forms. The form angrisi (found only in the Ayenbite of inwyt: see quot. 1340 at sense 1a) appears to be a transmission error, perhaps arising from association of the present word with anger n. and related words; compare in the same text the forms angrice, angrise at anguish n. Forms, and see note at that entry.
1.
a. transitive. To afflict with mental pain or suffering; to torment, to trouble, to distress.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict
overharryeOE
aileOE
swencheOE
besetOE
traya1000
teenOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
derve?c1225
grieve1297
harrya1300
noyc1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
wrath14..
aggrievea1325
annoya1325
tribula1325
to hold wakenc1330
anguish1340
distrainc1374
wrap1380
strain1382
ermec1386
afflicta1393
cumbera1400
assayc1400
distressc1400
temptc1400
encumber1413
labour1437
infortune?a1439
stressa1450
trouble1489
arraya1500
constraina1500
attempt1525
misease1530
exercise1531
to hold or keep waking1533
try1539
to wring to the worse1542
pinch1548
affligec1550
trounce1551
oppress1555
inflict1566
overharl1570
strait1579
to make a martyr of1599
straiten1611
tribulatea1637
to put through the hoop(s)1919
snooter1923
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)]
heavyc897
pineeOE
aileOE
sorryeOE
traya1000
sorrowOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
angerc1175
smarta1200
to work, bake, brew balec1200
derve?c1225
grieve?c1225
sitc1225
sweam?c1225
gnawc1230
sughc1230
troublec1230
aggrievea1325
to think sweama1325
unframea1325
anguish1340
teen1340
sowa1352
distrainc1374
to-troublea1382
strain1382
unglad1390
afflicta1393
paina1393
distressa1400
hita1400
sorea1400
assayc1400
remordc1400
temptc1400
to sit (or set) one sorec1420
overthrow?a1425
visit1424
labour1437
passionc1470
arraya1500
constraina1500
misgrievea1500
attempt1525
exagitate1532
to wring to the worse1542
toil1549
lament1580
adolorate1598
rankle1659
try1702
to pass over ——1790
upset1805
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
to put (a person) through it1855
bludgeon1888
to get to ——1904
to put through the hoop(s)1919
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)]
quelmeOE
eatc1000
martyrOE
fretc1175
woundc1175
to-fret?c1225
gnawc1230
to-traya1250
torment1297
renda1333
anguish1340
grindc1350
wringc1374
debreakc1384
ofpinec1390
rivea1400
urn1488
reboil1528
whip1530
cruciate1532
pinch1548
spur-galla1555
agonize1570
rack1576
cut1582
excruciate1590
scorchc1595
discruciate1596
butcher1597
split1597
torture1598
lacerate1600
harrow1603
hell1614
to eat upa1616
arrow1628
martyrize1652
percruciate1656
tear1666
crucify1702
flay1782
wrench1798
kill1800
to cut up1843
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 146 Þet me naȝt him misdo ne angrisi [read anguisi] ne harmi.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lx. 3 Whil myn herte shulde ben anguysht [a1425 L.V. angwischid; L. anxiaretur].
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. met. vii. l. 2198 Euery delit..anguisseþ hem wiþ prikkes þat vsen it.
1549 T. Broke tr. J. Calvin Of Life Christen Man sig. F.viii They were greued wyth doloure and anguyshed wyth heuynes.
1581 J. Heywood in tr. Seneca Thyestes (new ed.) Argt., in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 21 Thiestes..knowing he had eaten his owne children, was wonderfully anguished.
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 59 That..which anguisheth thee most, is to haue this glorious pageant of the World, remoued from thee.
1665 G. Swinnock Wks. xv. 855 The sinners life,..whilst under the wrath of an infinite God, and anguisht with the gripings of a guilty conscience, is little less then an earnest and taste of hell.
1778 Heroic Epist. from Kitty Cut-a-dash to Oroonoko (ed. 2) 32 That atomy of virtue, his mind's guest, Which rankling, anguishes his canker'd breast.
1855 N. Wiseman Fabiola 338 It was..the making him doubly a fratricide, which deeply anguished her.
1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xviii. 282 More poignantly thereby was the Duke a sight to anguish them.
2005 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. 7 What anguished him most was that republicanism could be diminished by allegations of criminality.
†b. transitive. To afflict with physical pain or suffering; to hurt, to torture. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)]
bethrowOE
tintreghec1175
tormentc1290
pinse?c1335
anguisha1425
pincha1425
to put to (the) torture1551
agonize1570
torture1594
scorchc1595
flay1782
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > suffer pain [verb (transitive)] > cause pain
aileOE
grieve?c1225
girdc1275
painc1375
putc1390
sorea1400
troublec1400
anguisha1425
vex?c1425
urn1488
suffera1500
exagitate1532
fire1602
trachle1889
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxxi. 40 Y was angwischid [L. urebar] in dai and nyȝt with heete and frost.
1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis vi. 622 As there is any member anguished with paine or any disease, euen then all the other members impart therewith.
1652 T. Adams God's Anger 49 We are anguished in our bodies with paines and sickness, and are sorry for it.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 341/1 My first..anguishes the toe of a man.
1866 W. C. Martyn Hist. Huguenots xviii. 247 [His] quivering sinews yet anguished him.
1915 Catholic World Sept. 770 Sharply anguished by his wounds, he sends Laeg..with a message to Conor praying him to come and help him.
2.
a. intransitive. To feel or express anguish; to suffer severe pain or sorrow. Now often in weakened sense: to worry intensely, to fret over or about something. †Formerly also transitive followed by a that-clause.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)]
anguisha1400
smoke1548
wring1565
to eat one's (own) heart1590
to bleed inwardlya1616
sting1849
twinge1850
to be hard (sometimes heavily, badly) hit1854
a1400 Mirror (Hunterian 250) (2003) viii. 101 Þai ne þenchen nouȝt þat þai schul anguischen for her riches ablindeþ hem and confundeþ hem.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 132 Kyng Henry..anguised greuosly, þat Thomas was so slayn.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Dijv Whose soules with sin-empoisning hate did anguish.
1624 I. Bargrave Serm. against Selfe Policy 36 Thy bones anguish, thy limbes sinke under thee.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) V. 129 The Will..strives..to tear itself away from the Custody of Evil, though anguishing in the Strife.
1843 in tr. Xenophon Whole Wks. 216 The Greeks anguishing in grief, Xenophon begins to arouse the courage of the colonels.
1884 Sunday Mag. 13 190/1 Her heart anguished for the baby's safety.
1918 Bookman Apr. 191/1 Lone Electra looms, and anguishes, and waits.
1952 W. Faulkner Let. 7 May in Sel. Lett. (1977) 331 A long time now since I have anguished over putting words together.
1989 E. Hoffman Lost in Transl. (1991) iii. 248 He anguishes about the mistakes he's made in his life.
2011 Economist 13 Aug. 25/2 Time and again he anguished over fraying communities and the supposed death of ‘responsibility’.
b. transitive (reflexive). To cause oneself anguish; to distress oneself. rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause to oneself [verb (reflexive)]
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a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. vi. 12 But anguysche ȝee ȝou [L. angustiamini] in ȝoure entrayles.
1538 H. Latimer Let. 25 June in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 398 I will no longer anguish myself with a matter that I cannot remedy.
1810 Soldier of Pennaflor I. xi. 157 Suffer not prosperity to elate, or calamity to depress you; buoy not or anguish yourself with the idea that either is immortal, but in each remember ‘There is another, and a better world.’
1907 Smart Set Oct. 108/2 ‘Leave love out?’ she protested fiercely. ‘Would I have anguished myself to state awful facts if I did not lo—?’
2018 @DaleLauraaa 20 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm suffering and anguishing myself over a man that talks like he's 13.
†3. transitive. Perhaps: to smother, quash, or suppress (something). Obsolete. rare.
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1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iii. iii. sig. q.iv The .vii. maner of almesdede spyrytuall is, to hydde, to couer, and to anguysshe the ylle and dyffame of his neyghbour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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