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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

... closer and closer 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 ...

— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels

... anguished appeal to me for silence. Then I heard other footsteps in the corridor pausing outside my closed door. There was a moment's silence, then a soft muffled knocking. I moved towards it, only to be met ...

— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... turned and fled. Back through the jungle with the anguished speed of fear. The ground was sodden. It seemed to hold her flying feet. She tore them free, only to plunge deeper at every step, while behind her, swift and remorseless, ...

— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... my tuneless ear Soft music's stealing strain; It cannot soothe, it cannot cheer This anguished heart again! But place the AEolian harp upon The tomb of her I love; There, when Heaven shrouds the dying sun, My weary steps will rove, While o'er its chords Night pours its breath, To list the serenade of death Her ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... failure of the Girondin attempt to raise an army with which to deliver Paris from the foul clutches of the Jacobins. An anguished spectator of this failure, she saw in it a sign that Liberty was being strangled at its birth. On the lips of her friends the Girondins she caught again the name of Marat, the murderer of Liberty; and, brooding, she reached a conclusion embodied in a phrase of a letter which she wrote ...

— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini

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