ppl. a.; also anguisht. [f. ANGUISH v. + -ED.]
1. Distressed with severe pain or grief; tormented.
1382. Wyclif, Jonas ii. 8. My soule was angwishid in me.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. xlvii. (1677), 74. The spirits shrink inward, and retire to the anguisht heart.
1818. Art of Preserv. Feet, 50. Anguished sufferers try these panaceas.
1857. Miss Winkworth, Tauler’s Serm., xxv. 391. The thorns of an anguished conscience.
2. Expressing pain, full of anguish, agonized.
c. 1800. Southey, Race of Banquo, Wks. II. 155. The anguish’d shriek, the death-fraught groan.
1864. Neale, Seaton. Poems, 7. The ocean with unwonted roar, And anguish’d moan, shall vex his shore.
