She felt a sudden pang of guilt.pangpang /pæŋ/ noun [countable] 
She felt a sudden pang of guilt. hunger pangs
WORD ORIGINpang
Origin:
1400-1500 Perhaps from prongEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- hunger pangs
- All those cups of tea do add up and the fridge is always there ready to beckon when a hunger pang lingers.
- But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down.
- Melissa felt a pang of remorse.
- Ordinarily we could marvel and celebrate without any deeper pang of fear.
- She felt a sudden terrible pang.
- The first showed the pangs of passion replaced by musical harmony.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She felt a sudden pang of guilt. hunger pangsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together.
a sudden feeling of pain, sadness etcpang of jealousy/guilt/remorse/regret She felt a sudden pang of guilt. hunger pangs I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together.· Richard felt a pang of guilt, knowing that he had forgotten her birthday.
(=sudden feelings of being hungry)
(=a sudden feeling of jealousy)· Polly felt a sharp pang of jealousy when she saw Paul with Suzanne.
(=a short feeling of nostalgia)· She felt a pang of nostalgia for the time when they were all children.
literary (=a sudden short feeling of regret)· Kate watched her go with a pang of regret.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Lindsey experienced a sharp pang of guilt.· After so long eating recycled meals on Belial, her salivary glands sprang into life with sharp little pangs of anticipation.· This tears her and causes her a sharp pang of pain, making her cry out.· She turned on him a glance of tearful gratitude that caused Karelius an unexpectedly sharp pang of jealousy.
· She felt a sudden terrible pang.· He experienced a sudden pang of regret he'd rejected her offer.· But then he wasn't likely to believe anything good about her, she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow.
NOUN· She was cold and unwashed and hunger pangs were beginning to gnaw again.· All those cups of tea do add up and the fridge is always there ready to beckon when a hunger pang lingers.· The Harpy is magically kept alive, but suffers agonizing hunger pangs and is in constant pain.
VERB· Ironically she felt a tiny pang of regret for the long Viking locks, though she couldn't have said why.· She blew him little kisses, and he felt love and pangs of something that frightened him.· Melissa felt a pang of remorse.· He sounded as if he was thoroughly disgusted by the whole business and she felt a pang of dismay.· I felt a pang of hunger and the mood of evening.· It was his first sight of his grandson and he felt a pang of anxiety as he looked down at him.· Sometimes I felt little pangs of guilt, but my manager quickly talked me out of that.
· Men too suffer the pangs of guilt - although they have not yet become as expert as women.· When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs.· The Harpy is magically kept alive, but suffers agonizing hunger pangs and is in constant pain.· During her two-year absence Eliza suffered great pangs of homesickness and longing for her children.
She felt a sudden pang of guilt. hunger pangs