anguish

August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck – Anguish. Oil on canvas around 1877.

Meanings

Noun

Verb

Origin

  • From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia, from angustus, from angō. See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
  • From Middle English angwischen, anguisen, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).

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