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anguished

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verb

past tense of anguish
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Recent Examples of anguished
Adjective
The anguished ending is divisive, but god if Liu doesn’t sell it. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 The Bostock ruling arrived against a backdrop of anguished soul-searching on the right. Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 The anguished frenzy reminded me of the scene across the street from then-Staples Center in those days after Kobe’s death, when thousands of people gravitated to that block of restaurants and bars and a purple-and-gold memorial grew. Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2025 There’s a certain seductive logic to the argument Hoult’s anguished protagonist makes for letting someone take the fall for his mistake. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anguished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anguished
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • At the vigil, the atmosphere appeared to be both mournful and celebratory of Scooter’s life.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Season four will be the last for The Righteous Gemstones, and there are signs in this mournful (and vulgar/hilarious) episode that this extremely American empire may be going the way of Kelvin’s treehouse.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Ringo was yellow submarines and octopus gardens, the mascot little brother, despite being the eldest Beatle, and the best at flittering above the feuds that afflicted the trio of geniuses around him.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, this fresh ailment has afflicted him for the majority of his 2024-25 run.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The people of Oklahoma and Grady County in particular mourned his passing.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In response to the video, some social media users mourned the decline of PlayPlaces and similar play areas.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • King was on an errand to pick up a snack for his mom when he was shot, heartbroken relatives said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Downs recovered from her injuries but remained heartbroken over the loss of her friends and overwhelmed with survivor's guilt.
    Laurel Morales, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The squads will rotate funeral duty to maintain their health.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Many of the items had been burned, suggesting that they might have been torched upon a funeral pyre, but no human remains were found amid the assemblage.
    News Desk, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The United States and the Soviet Union were bitter adversaries during the four decade-long Cold War, competing for influence on multiple continents and arming their respective proxies from as far afield as Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua in order to enhance their power at the other's expense.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • By emphasizing short wars, strategists rely too much on initial battle plans that may not play out in practice—with bitter consequences.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In recent months, the Kennedy Center has been besieged by performance cancelations both voluntary and involuntary.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • At the start of the invasion, Russian troops besieged the city, forcing residents to endure harsh winter conditions without electricity or water under constant shelling from Russian artillery, missiles and drones.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Anguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anguished. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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