experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering 经受极度痛苦的;表示极度痛苦的 he gave an anguished cry. 他发出痛苦不已的叫喊。
语源
early 17th cent.: past participle of the rare verb anguish, from Old French anguissier, from ecclesiastical Latin angustiare 'to distress', from Latin angustia (see anguish)