[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Deeply distressing or afflicting, agonizing.
c. 1680. Pordage, Mystic Div. (1683), 118. The Eternal Anguishing Fire-Spirit.
1761. Law, Comf. Weary Pilgr. (1809), 107. The anguishing terrors of thy soul.
1810. Campbell, Poems, I. 128. Heaven’s mercy relieving Each anguishing wound.
