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anguish

noun as in severe upset or pain

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We hear Alicia’s voice begin to tremble as she wanders off-camera, her grief and anguish visceral.

After years of feeling alone in her anguish and grief, Campfield felt like she was part of something bigger, something that could change the things she hated so much about the world.

One young character, after suffering a grisly accident, screams in anguish—the wailing spirals out in an unavoidable whirl that seems to go on forever.

From Time

No family should have to go through the anguish, stress, and indignity we went through.

Amid this gloom and anguish, a local non-government organisation has become synonymous with hope.

From Quartz

Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away.

But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.

After mom cries out in anguish and frustration on hearing the verdict, the ugly side of the protests rears its head.

But their suffering and anguish is nothing compared to that of their victims.

These people, Beck said, are “serving in silence, serving in their own personal anguish, their own personal pain.”

She suddenly sank back upon the pillow and gave up to bitter anguish, when she recalled what had followed.

Oddly enough, in that moment of anguish he thought of Hodson, the man who rode alone from Kurnaul to Meerut.

The eyes of the Marchioness and her daughter met with an anguish of commiseration in each, neither of them could utter.

Her own wild imaginings made death seem preferable to the anguish of her belief that Frank had fallen.

We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anguish, such as: agony, grief, heartache, heartbreak, misery, and sorrow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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