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# anguish

noun (no plural form)

«anguish» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Anguish is very great pain or sorrow of the mind or heart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anguish/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a parent's or hero's deep grief when something terrible happens

### Examples

- She wept in anguish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anguish/#x1)
- His anguish grew as the storm came. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anguish/#x2)
- Fionn cried out in anguish for his son. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anguish/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

in tales, a parent's or hero's deep grief when something terrible happens

### Examples

- Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall. (Writings LAM.3.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/anguish/#x1)
- Trouble and anguish have overtaken me; yet Thy commandments are my delight. (Writings PSA.119.143, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/anguish/#x2)
- At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have gathered blackness. (Prophets JOL.2.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/anguish/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «anguish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anguish/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«anguish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/anguish.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «anguish» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/anguish/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«anguish» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/anguish.html) on Mova free.