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1. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
   "an anguished conscience"
   - tormented, tortured

1. Suffer great pains or distress
    
2. Cause emotional anguish or make miserable
   "It anguishes me to see my children not being taught well in school"
   - pain, hurt

See also: sorrowful

Type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, suffer, untune, upset

Encyclopedia: Anguish