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Anguished

adjective

Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain. Synonyms: tormented, tortured. "A small tormented schoolboy" , "A tortured witness to another's humiliation"

Anguish

verb

Suffer great pains or distress.

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable. Synonyms: hurt, pain.

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"Anguished" Quotes from Famous Books

... sturdily asserted her claim on happiness, nevertheless she quailed secretly before the ordeal of writing to her friends regarding the change in her plans. Long she pondered before committing the gloomy information to paper. More than one anguished tear fell from her eyes as she relentlessly pursued her difficult task. Not so very long ago she had fondly dreamed of the time when she should happily send to those she loved the summons to come ...

— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower

... Her frock was of some clinging gray material that made her look more fairy-like than ever. A drooping veil of gray gauze fell like a mist before her face, screening from him the anguished mirrors of ...

— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew

... to watch the effect upon her, the women with an anguished consciousness of what she must be suffering, that mother-pain which they understood so well. The men pushed to see what happened, because everybody was looking. All eyes were fixed on the little woman who came running along, ...

— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels

... longer. In the matter of nourishment he was quite independent of his mother, though this independence had not been won without a struggle. Thor was conservative in all things, and the whole family had anguished with him when he was being weaned. Being the youngest, he was still the baby for Mrs. Kronborg, though he was nearly four years old and sat up boldly on her lap this afternoon, holding on to the ends of the lines and shouting "'mup, 'mup, ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... his face from his hands and looked up. His expression was a complete surprise. It was neither savage nor anguished, but ingratiating, complacent, full of suppressed excitement. Into his eyes had sprung an indescribable look of cunning, the look of a broken-down diplomat about to outwit his adversary with a ...

— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

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