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anguish
Synonyms and Antonyms of anguish
1
a state of great suffering of body or mind
affliction, agony, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe
2
deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness
contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame
Synonym Discussion of anguish
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- a family united in sorrow upon the patriarch's death
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- the inexpressible grief of the bereaved parents
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- the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child
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- cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city
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- nagging regret for missed opportunities
anguish
Synonyms and Antonyms of anguish
1
to cause persistent suffering to
badger, dog, hound, pursue, ride
aggravate, agitate, annoy, bother, bug, chafe, distress, disturb, exasperate, gall, get, grate, gripe, hagride, harass, harry, irk, irritate, molest, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put out, rasp, rile, vex
discomfort, discompose, disquiet, fluster, grieve, perturb, strain, stress, trouble, try, upset, worry
crush, oppress, overpower, overwhelm, smite, strike, tyrannize, victimize
2
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
eat one's heart out, tear one's hair
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