Synonyms of the word anguish


ANGUISHDISCOMFIT - DISCOMPOSE - DISCONCERT - DISTRESS - HURT - PAIN - SUFFER - SUFFERING - TORMENT - TORTURE - UNTUNE - UPSET

anguish

  • n. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer pain.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.

discomfit

  • v. (archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.
  • v. To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate.
  • v. (proscribed) To embarrass greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
  • adj. (obsolete) Discomfited; overthrown.

discompose

  • v. (transitive) To destroy the composure of something.

disconcert

  • v. (transitive) To upset the composure of.
  • v. (transitive) To bring into confusion.
  • v. (transitive) To frustrate, make go wrong.

distress

  • n. (Cause of) discomfort.
  • n. Serious danger.
  • n. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
  • n. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
  • v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
  • v. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
  • v. To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.

hurt

  • v. (intransitive) To be painful.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  • adj. Pained.
  • n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
  • n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
  • n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • n. A husk.

pain

  • n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
  • n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
  • n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
  • n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  • n. Labour; effort; pains.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
  • v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

suffer

  • v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
  • v. (intransitive) To become worse.
  • v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

suffering

  • adj. Experiencing pain.
  • n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
  • v. present participle of suffer.

torment

  • n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
  • n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
  • n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
  • v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

torture

  • n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
  • n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
  • n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
  • v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

untune

  • v. (transitive) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

upset

  • adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
  • n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
  • n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
  • n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  • n. An upset stomach.
  • n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
  • v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
  • v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
  • v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
  • v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

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