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Anguish vs Desolation - What's the difference?

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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

  • Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  • * Bible, Exodus vi. 9
  • But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
  • * Latimer
  • Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
  • * 1889 , :
  • 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)
  • To suffer pain.
  • * (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
  • 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.
  • To cause to suffer pain.
  • desolation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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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