anguish

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering. countable,uncountable
    — It took years to overcome the anguish from my wife's death.
动词 v.
  1. To suffer pain. intransitive
    — c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
  2. To cause to suffer pain. transitive

词形变化

anguishes plural anguishes present,singular,third-person anguishing participle,present anguished participle,past anguished past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
词源 2
From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).
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