Anguishing
excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain:
the anguish of grief.
to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.
to suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish:
to anguish over the loss of a loved one.
Contemporary Examples
I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing.
Kevin Spacey on Casino Jack Kevin Sessums December 13, 2010
But there’s a serious point here, and it extends well beyond the anguishing question of sexual assault.
Let’s Get Real About Abortions David Frum October 28, 2012
For all its anguishing, the Court is actually a bit-player here.
Can Government Call the Shots on Cellphone Privacy? Aziz Huq April 29, 2014
Historical Examples
We resumed our seats, but had hardly done so, when a deep and most anguishing groan was heard, that pierced our very hearts.
Caxton’s Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. W. H. Rhodes
And, most anguishing of all, there was no chance that there was a mistake.
The Road to Understanding Eleanor H. Porter
An anguishing desire for the safe and wholesome Present usurped all this mad yearning to obtain the Past.
Incredible Adventures Algernon Blackwood
The wild steed sought to fling up his head to shake off this anguishing weight of seventy odd pounds.
Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories Albert Payson Terhune
Our audiences, as you will have gathered, were often critical folk who could sit with dry eyes through our most anguishing scenes.
The Secrets of a Savoyard Henry A. Lytton
Winnie’s sweet and trusting faith in him filled him with an anguishing shame.
Frank Merriwell’s Reward Burt L. Standish
noun
extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony
verb
to afflict or be afflicted with anguish
n.
c.1200, “acute bodily or mental suffering,” from Old French anguisse, angoisse “choking sensation, distress, anxiety, rage,” from Latin angustia (plural angustiae) “tightness, straitness, narrowness;” figuratively “distress, difficulty,” from ang(u)ere “to throttle, torment” (see anger (v.)).
v.
early 14c., intransitive and reflexive; mid-14c., transitive, from Old French anguissier (Modern French angoisser), from anguisse (see anguish (n.)). Related: Anguished; anguishing.
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