The meaning of Anguished

adjective

Manifesting, suffering, or characterized by great physical or mental pain.

Usage examples:

She gave an agonized cry

verb

Undergo great mental anguish through worrying about something.

Usage examples:

I didn't agonize over the problem

adjective

Extremely unhappy about the failure or end of something

abbreviation

Data encryption standard.

noun

Abbreviation for data encryption standard

adjective

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.

Usage examples:

A desolate pennine moor

verb

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty.

Usage examples:

The droughts that desolated the dry plains

adjective

(of a place) having no living things; empty

Usage examples:

A desolate landscape, when her son left for a year abroad, she felt desolate.

verb

Destroy or ruin.

Usage examples:

The city was devastated by a huge earthquake

adjective

Completely destroyed

Usage examples:

Thousands of people have left their devastated villages and fled to the mountains., she was utterly…

adjective

Suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I was distressed at the news of his death

verb

Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I didn't mean to distress you

adjective

Distressed debts, etc. are sold to investors at very low prices because there is a high risk that the company owing them will be unable to pay them back. investors buy them because they hope to get back more from the company owing the money than they have paid for the debts

Usage examples:

The texas-based firm buys distressed assets from financial institutions and liquidates them at a pr…

verb

Draw a harrow over (land).

Usage examples:

They ploughed and harrowed the heavy clay

noun

An implement consisting of a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over ploughed land to break up clods, remove weeds, and cover seed.

Usage examples:

German farmers used spike-tooth harrows extensively to control weeds in small grains fields before …

adjective

Looking as if you have suffered

Usage examples:

His face was harrowed.

adjective

Suffering from overwhelming distress.

Usage examples:

He was heartbroken at the thought of leaving the house

adjective

Feeling very sad or disappointed

Usage examples:

Alexis was heartbroken when she was dropped from the team.

adjective

(of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

Their happiness made anne feel even more miserable

adjective

Very unhappy, or causing much unhappiness

Usage examples:

They can make your life miserable if they want to., the forecast is for miserable weather today.

adjective

Feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy.

Usage examples:

I was sad and subdued

adjective

(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.

abbreviation

Seasonal affective disorder.

adjective

Feeling or showing grief.

Usage examples:

She looked at him with sorrowful eyes

adjective

Very sad

Usage examples:

With a sorrowful sigh she folded the letter and put it away.

verb

Feel or display deep distress.

Usage examples:

A woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband

adjective

Feeling or displaying deep distress or sadness.

Usage examples:

The sorrowing widower found it hard to relate to his sons

verb

Present participle of sorrow

Usage examples:

For years she sorrowed over her missing son.

adjective

Experiencing or characterized by severe physical or mental suffering.

Usage examples:

He is a tormented genius

verb

Cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.

Usage examples:

He was tormented by jealousy

verb

Past simple and past participle of torment

Usage examples:

The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes., the camera focused on a group of wo…

verb

Inflict severe pain or suffering on.

Usage examples:

Most of the victims had been brutally tortured

noun

The action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.

Usage examples:

The torture of political prisoners

adjective

Involving suffering and difficulty

Usage examples:

The country's tortured past, the tortured history of race relations

adjective

Not happy.

Usage examples:

An unhappy marriage

adjective

Not feeling pleasure or satisfaction

Usage examples:

It was an unhappy time of her life., they were unhappy about their hotel room (= did not like it) a…

adjective

(of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.

Usage examples:

I felt so wretched because i thought i might never see you again

adjective

Unhappy or extremely sad

Usage examples:

He looked so ill and wretched as he spoke that he made me feel wretched myself., workers lived in w…