Dictionary Entry

anguished

To suffer pain.

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Common Phrases

cry anguished. anguishedcries anguishedover anguishedface anguishedvoice anguished

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Poetry examples for “anguished”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The goaded city gives, not day
Nor night can ease her heart, her anguished labours stay.

Depths could not stay you.
Anguished we saw you,
Saw Death way-lay you

A flutter of color running under leaves--
Such anguished dreams in your eyes!
And I listen to you speak

a split leaf crackles on the paved floor--
I am anguished--defeated.

So once more he had wak'd and anguished
A dreary night of love and misery, 50

Some tarnished epaulette—some sword—
Poor toys to soothe such anguished pain.

Some tarnished epaulette—some sword—
Poor toys to soothe such anguished pain.

Of all the tribe that feel in melodies;
Who leapt, love-anguished, from the Leucadian steep
Into the rambling world-encircling deep