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verb

past tense of anguish
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Recent Examples of anguished
Adjective
What follows is Maria’s swift and anguished decline. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025 The anguished ending is divisive, but god if Liu doesn’t sell it. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 The Bostock ruling arrived against a backdrop of anguished soul-searching on the right. Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 The anguished frenzy reminded me of the scene across the street from then-Staples Center in those days after Kobe’s death, when thousands of people gravitated to that block of restaurants and bars and a purple-and-gold memorial grew. Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anguished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anguished
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • The slow, mournful piano chords capture the somber bite of the scene with remarkable punch yet also a sobering stillness, and that’s before the elegiac words carry the song off into the sky.
    Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 8 May 2025
  • Wynette’s mournful lyrics about a partner who has left—will one protagonist leave the other during the game’s main campaign?—to the sound of lonely, sad acoustic country music is the flip side of Wang Chung’s carefree spirit.
    Brady Gerber, Vulture, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Ringo was yellow submarines and octopus gardens, the mascot little brother, despite being the eldest Beatle, and the best at flittering above the feuds that afflicted the trio of geniuses around him.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, this fresh ailment has afflicted him for the majority of his 2024-25 run.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The people of Oklahoma and Grady County in particular mourned his passing.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In response to the video, some social media users mourned the decline of PlayPlaces and similar play areas.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Stacy Melo, an east Arlington resident, told the City Council that she was left heartbroken and shocked the last time TotalEnergies came before council.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025
  • After everyone left, her husband apologized for his mother’s absence and thanked her for her hard work, but the experience left her heartbroken.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • For me, even in funeral masses of family and friends, that's the most powerful moment.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Mourners pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of funeral Mourners from around the world pay their respects to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
    Eryk Michael Smith, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The harmony of flavors—including sweet tomatoes and cider, bitter radishes, spicy greens, umami Parmesan, and salty finishing flakes—kept me going back for bite after bite.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2025
  • There is no sign of major disputes being resolved, including a bitter dispute with New York-area lawmakers over raising the cap on deducting state and local taxes, or SALT.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • In recent months, the Kennedy Center has been besieged by performance cancelations both voluntary and involuntary.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • At the start of the invasion, Russian troops besieged the city, forcing residents to endure harsh winter conditions without electricity or water under constant shelling from Russian artillery, missiles and drones.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Anguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anguished. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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