anguish
NOUN:
1. excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain:
the anguish of grief.
2. extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony.
3. extreme pain, distress, or anxiety:
cries of anguish; mental anguish.
Examples:
He experienced the anguish of divorce after 10 years of marriage; They watched in anguish as fire spread through the house. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English anguisse<Old French <Latin angustia tight place, equivalent to angust(us) narrow + -ia-ia; cf. anxious; akin to anger. British dictionary: C13: from Old French angoisse a strangling, from Latin angustia narrowness, from angustus narrow. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of anguish: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology for anguish: Noun: Middle English angoise, angwissche, borrowed from Anglo-French anguisse, angoisse, going back to Latin angustia (usually in plural angustiae) "narrowness, narrow passage, limitations, straits" (Late Latin, "suffering, distress"), noun derivative (with -ia -y entry 2), of angustus "narrow, confined, straitened," probably from *angos- (whence angōr-, angor "suffocation, anguish") + *-to-, adjective suffix — more at anger entry 1. Verb: Middle English anguisen, anguischen "to grieve, be distressed," borrowed from Anglo-French anguisser, angoisser "to distress, cause pain to, (as reflexive verb) suffer, be tormented," going back to Late Latin angustiāre "to compress, afflict, be in difficult circumstances," derivative of Latin angustia "narrowness, straits" — more at anguish entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 5 September 2020 {3:15 PM}
1. excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain:
the anguish of grief.
2. extreme pain or misery; mental or physical torture; agony.
3. extreme pain, distress, or anxiety:
cries of anguish; mental anguish.
Examples:
He experienced the anguish of divorce after 10 years of marriage; They watched in anguish as fire spread through the house. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English anguisse<Old French <Latin angustia tight place, equivalent to angust(us) narrow + -ia-ia; cf. anxious; akin to anger. British dictionary: C13: from Old French angoisse a strangling, from Latin angustia narrowness, from angustus narrow. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of anguish: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology for anguish: Noun: Middle English angoise, angwissche, borrowed from Anglo-French anguisse, angoisse, going back to Latin angustia (usually in plural angustiae) "narrowness, narrow passage, limitations, straits" (Late Latin, "suffering, distress"), noun derivative (with -ia -y entry 2), of angustus "narrow, confined, straitened," probably from *angos- (whence angōr-, angor "suffocation, anguish") + *-to-, adjective suffix — more at anger entry 1. Verb: Middle English anguisen, anguischen "to grieve, be distressed," borrowed from Anglo-French anguisser, angoisser "to distress, cause pain to, (as reflexive verb) suffer, be tormented," going back to Late Latin angustiāre "to compress, afflict, be in difficult circumstances," derivative of Latin angustia "narrowness, straits" — more at anguish entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 5 September 2020 {3:15 PM}