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anguish

noun
/ˈæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.

  1. derived from angustia — “narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”
  2. derived from angoisse
  3. derived from anguise
  4. inherited from angwissh

Definitions

  1. Extreme pain, either of body or mind

    Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

    • So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
    • Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
    • Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint, Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and unpittied plaint, Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.

  2. To suffer pain.

    • c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.

  3. To cause to suffer pain.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A surname.

      • Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton
      • By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]
      • On motion of Mr. Anguish, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to House Bill No. 115 by the following vote: Those voting yea were: Representatives Adams (Wm. H.), Adamson, Allen, Anderson (W. M.), Anguish, Aspinwall, Atkinson […]

    2. A male given name.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at anguish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01anguish02distress03discomfort04comfort05suffering06suffer07pain

A definitional loop anchored at anguish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at anguish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA