anguish
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Is anguish a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of anguish?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To suffer pain.Examples: "c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again."Synonyms: hurt, suffer, ache, agonize, anguish, hurt, pain, passionintransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.Synonyms: afflict, torment, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, deretransitive
name (English)
1. (rare) A male given name.Examples: "[…] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary