Anguish vs Desolation - What's the difference?
anguish | desolation | Related terms |
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.
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness]]; destitution; [[gloom, gloominess.
A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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As nouns the difference between anguish and desolation
is that anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress while desolation is the act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.As a verb anguish
is to suffer pain.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.