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anguish/ˈaŋɡwɪʃ/
▶noun severe mental or physical pain or suffering. ▶verb be very distressed.
– origin ME: the noun via OFr. anguisse, the verb from OFr. anguissier, both from L. angustia ‘tightness’, (pl.) ‘straits, distress’, from angustus ‘narrow’.
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