Agonizing vs Anguish - What's the difference?
agonizing | anguish |
The act of one who agonizes.
* 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
* Bible, Exodus vi. 9
* Latimer
* 1889 , :
To suffer pain.
* (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
To cause to suffer pain.
As verbs the difference between agonizing and anguish
is that agonizing is present participle of lang=en while anguish is to suffer pain.As nouns the difference between agonizing and anguish
is that agonizing is the act of one who agonizes while anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.As an adjective agonizing
is causing agony.agonizing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
anguish
English
Noun
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
- A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
Synonyms
* agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:Verb
(es)- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.