ANGUISH (uncountable)
1. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Quotations
A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish—burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles
Synonyms
* agony
* calvary
* cross
* pang
* torture
* torment
Translations
* Finnish: kärsimys, tuska
* French: angoisse de la mort, affres de la mort, calvaire, croix
* German: Kreuz, Agonie, Todesangst
* Hungarian: aggodalom, gyötrelem, gyötrődés, kín
* Italian: angoscia mortale, agonia, calvario, croce
* Dutch: doodsangst, agonie, doodsstrijd, hevig lijden, martelgang
* Spanish: angustia
* Russian: му́ка f
