ANGUISHED

pp. Extremely pained; tortured; deeply distressed.

anguished

an guished |ˈaNGgwiSHt ˈæŋɡwɪʃt | ▶adjective experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering: he gave an anguished cry | when she turned, her face was anguished. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of anguish (verb ) in the rare sense ‘distress with severe mental or physical pain, ’ from Old French anguissier, from ecclesiastical Latin angustiare ‘to distress, ’ from Latin angustia (see anguish ).

anguished

an |guished |ˈaŋgwɪʃt | ▶adjective experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering: he gave an anguished cry. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of anguish (verb ) in the rare sense ‘distress with severe mental or physical pain ’, from Old French anguissier, from ecclesiastical Latin angustiare ‘to distress ’, from Latin angustia .

anguished

anguished adjective an anguished cry | her anguished face: agonized, tormented, racked with pain /suffering, tortured, harrowed; miserable, unhappy, sad, broken-hearted, heartbroken, grief-stricken, wretched, sorrowful, sorrowing, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing; informal cut up; literary dolorous. ANTONYMS happy, contented.

anguished

á n guished /-t /形容詞 ｟書 ｠苦悩に満ちた, 苦悶 （くもん ）の .