| 单词 | anguish |
| 释义 | anguish (once / 342 pages) nv The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress. A trip to the dentist might cause a cavity-prone person a lot of anguish. We get this word from a Latin word, angustus, which literally meant "narrow" but developed the figurative sense of "distressed" — think of being choked off or forced into a small space. In modern times anguish has been in the English with the parallel and related meanings of "physical torment" and "emotional suffering." Both kinds might be experienced at the hands of a dentist who likes to make his patients squirm in agony. WORD FAMILYanguish: anguished, anguishes, anguishing+/anguished: anguishedly USAGE EXAMPLESShe was puzzled when some were anguished that their mothers weren’t home for holidays and family events. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) These are false and forced frameworks, providing illusory freedom, as time provides illusory leniency when we, in anguish, let it pass monotonously. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) What binds the scenes together is Rodrigues, bearing witness and—so he hopes and prays—sharing in the anguish of his flock. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) 1n extreme distress of body or mind Hyper distress a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) 2n extreme mental distress Syn|Hyper torment, torture distress, hurt, suffering psychological suffering 3v suffer great pains or distress Hyper suffer experience (emotional) pain 4v cause emotional anguish or make miserable Syn|Hypo|Hyper hurt, pain break someone's heart cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody agonise, agonizecause to agonize trygive pain or trouble to excruciate, rack, torment, torturetorment emotionally or mentally discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset cause to lose one's composure |
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