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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

... anguished tones, "were your father's wedding trousers! I gave them to you with reluctance and as a great favor, you wretched boy, ...

— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... laid over night, we used to hear her anguished groans in the stillness of the night. In the morning every napkin belonging to the family would be found in a different part of the house, and perhaps a ring would be missing. These periods, however, only lasted as long, in each new kitten's training, as the few weeks that she had amused ...

— Concerning Cats - My Own and Some Others • Helen M. Winslow

... in soothing the soul of Marie that was now stricken with remorse, and in quieting the anguished alarms that succeeded the moments of pleasure, and under reiterated promises of marriage, poor Marie retained within her own breast the secret of her ruin, until nature was about, in its own mysterious way, to ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... out wildly. "You will! You must! You shall! I—I—" The house itself seemed suddenly to have awakened. From above doors opened and closed. Indistinctly there came the sound of a voice. She clenched her hand in anguished desperation. "Go, you—you coward!" ...

— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

... in his now empty waggon, on which the wounded captain was placed, with a wheat sheaf for a pillow, and drove carefully to The Holms. He was preceded by a waggon conveying a number of wounded soldiers to the military hospital at Niagara. As this load of injured and anguished humanity was driven down and up the steep sides of the ravine which crosses the road to the north of the village, at every jolt over the rough stones a groan of agony was wrung from the poor fellows, that made the heart ...

— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow

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