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   anguished

   /ˈaŋɡwɪʃt/

   adjective

   • 1. experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering: "he gave an anguished cry"

   Word Origin early 17th century: 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.

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