anguish
noun
[ ˈaŋɡwɪʃ ]
• severe mental or physical pain or suffering.
• "she shut her eyes in anguish"
Similar:
agony,
pain,
torment,
torture,
suffering,
distress,
angst,
misery,
sorrow,
grief,
heartache,
heartbreak,
wretchedness,
unhappiness,
woe,
desolation,
despair,
the dark night of the soul,
purgatory,
hell on earth,
dolour,
anguish
verb
• be extremely distressed about something.
• "I spent the next two weeks anguishing about whether I'd made the right decision"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin angustia ‘tightness’, (plural) ‘straits, distress’, from angustus ‘narrow’.
