Synonym: tormented, tortured. Similar words: anguish, languish, extinguished, languishing, distinguished, undistinguished, extinguish, distinguish. Meaning: ['æŋgwɪʃ] adj. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.
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1. The loss of her husband anguished her deeply.
2. She cast an anguished look at Guy.
3. She let out an anguished cry.
4. Desmond eyed her anguished face with sympathy.
5. He took an anguished breath. He had to be brutal and say it.
6. Board meetings grew ever more vociferous and anguished.
7. But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.
8. The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year.
9. An analysis of the anguished reactions of parents assuming new roles of parenting a handicapped child illustrates some typical responses.
10. Burton played the anguished but heroic young captain who would not betray the revolutionary leader despite the systematic slaughter of six hostages.
11. She felt the anguished tears of motherhood blur her vision and blinked them away.
12. Beneath his highly cool exterior he was anguished and distraught.
13. He glanced up, saw Auguste's anguished eyes[sentencedict.com/anguished.html], and thought he understood.
14. Anguished Bernadette spoke of her ordeal since Mr Onanuga left home 16 days ago.
15. She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that hasn't quite worked as her generation dreamed.
16. Its tearing rage tells of torment and the anguished devils that take up emotional residence in your heart after a fractured romance.
17. Bill's anguished mother met me in the doorway.
18. An anguished look appeared on her face.
19. Their wounds like flames eat their anguished flesh.
20. He was anguished after falling off the balcony.
21. The victim uttered anguished cries.
22. He was anguished by the death of his grandmother.
23. Being confused and anguished, he a Buddhist monk.
24. It had been a welcome respite in a cruel and anguished time.
25. Racine has entered the drawingroom, and these protagonists engage either in anguished self-revelation or in disillusioning judgments about each other.
26. Pete Wilson yesterday, drawing a strongly worded veto but defining the battle lines after months of debate and anguished decisions.
27. From these deathly origins Nizan's life span was to proceed in an anguished spiral.
28. It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil's anguished family he would survive.
29. But what if they were obliged to seek that elusive spring for the good of those they'd orphaned and anguished?
30. This is fully understood by everyone active in Washington politics despite all the anguished denials.
More similar words: anguish, languish, extinguished, languishing, distinguished, undistinguished, extinguish, distinguish, fire extinguisher, distinguishable, indistinguishable, undistinguishable, distinguishing, linguist, linguistic, languid, linguistics, sanguine, roguish, languidly, sanguinary, roguishly, consanguine, consanguinity, relinquished, guise, penguin, disguise, disguised, hang-up.