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anguish
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  • But as I hold Khalil's grandma's hand, I see the anguish in her eyes.  (source)
    anguish = distress or suffering
  • As months passed without any word of Chris, and then years, the anguish mounted.  (source)
    anguish = extreme distress
  • Winnie, struggling with the anguish of all these things, could only sit hunched and numb,  (source)
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  • Mostly, though, I saw the blaze of love and anguish that had come so often into her face.  (source)
    anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
  • Then Tony raises his voice in an anguished cry.  (source)
    anguished = with extreme distress
  • Farming is always a chancy business, but in west-era Kansas its practitioners consider themselves "born gamblers," for they must contend with an extremely shallow precipitation (the annual average is eighteen inches) and anguishing irrigation problems.†  (source)
  • Ah, wheresoe'er I go, With woe, with woe, with woe, My anguish'd breast is aching!†  (source)
  • That he cannot protect the girl he loves anguishes him greatly.  (source)
    anguishes = distresses
  • Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate (and later Vice President) Alben Barkely of Kentucky told a campaign audience that Taft "never experienced a crescendo of heart about the soup kitchens of 1932, but his heart bled anguishedly for the criminals at Nuremberg."†  (source)
  • Her smile faded, her chest tightened, and a heavy blanket of anguish smothered her smallest joy.  (source)
    anguish = extreme suffering or distress
  • He looked across the fire at Lennie's anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames.  (source)
    anguished = extremely distressed
  • As I saw the anguishing thing of Simon knocked over and bloodied in the gutter, I only listened and didn't speak of Grandma's death, or the furniture, and Mama put out of the house.†  (source)
  • The house with rage he scratch'd and gnaw'd, In vain,—he fast was Sinking; Full many an anguish'd bound he gave, Nothing the hapless brute could save, As if his frame love wasted.†  (source)
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