Anguish
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

WOE
Intense mournfulness

AIL
Aromatic bulb used as seasoning

CUT
With parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

RUE
(French) a street or road in France

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PAIN
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

FRET
A small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

HURT
The act of damaging something or someone

ACHE
Be the source of pain

BALE
A large bundle bound for storage or transport

CARE
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

DOLE
Money received from the state

EVIL
Morally objectionable behavior

HELL
Noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"

PANG
A sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"

RACK
A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

STAB
Informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting"

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BLAHS
A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction

BLEED
Draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"

CRUSH
The act of crushing

CUTUP
Significantly cut up a manuscript

DREAD
Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

ENNUI
The feeling of being bored by something tedious

POUND
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"

PRICK
The act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the balloon a small prick"

SHOOT
The act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"

SMART
Be the source of pain

STING
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

SWEAT
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

THROB
An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"

TRIAL
The act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

UPSET
An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

WINCE
A reflex response to sudden pain

WOUND
The act of inflicting a wound

ANGST
An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom

WORRY
Touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried his beads"

GRIEF
Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"

AGONY
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

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SORROW
Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"

MISERY
A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"

BLANCH
Cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them"

BLENCH
Turn pale, as if in fear

BRUISE
Injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee"

DOLOUR
(poetry) painful grief

GRIEVE
Cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"

NAUSEA
Disgust so strong it makes you feel sick

ORDEAL
A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

PIERCE
Cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"

PINING
A feeling of deep longing

PLAGUE
An annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

REGRET
Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

SHRINK
A physician who specializes in psychiatry

SPLEEN
A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses

STRESS
The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

SUFFER
Experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"

TEDIUM
The feeling of being bored by something tedious

THRILL
Something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation; "the thrills of space travel"

TINGLE
A somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles

TWINGE
Cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"

TWITCH
Move or pull with a sudden motion

UNEASE
The trait of seeming ill at ease

UNREST
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"

WRITHE
To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

HARROW
A cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil

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TORMENT
The act of harassing someone

TRAVAIL
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

AFFLICT
Cause physical pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"

AGONISE
Cause to agonize

AGONIZE
Cause to agonize

ANGUISH
Extreme mental distress

ANXIETY
A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

BOREDOM
The feeling of being bored by something tedious

DISLIKE
An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

DISTURB
Change the arrangement or position of

GRIMACE
A contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"

MALAISE
Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

OPPRESS
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

SADNESS
The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

TROUBLE
An effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"

DESPAIR
A state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"

TORTURE
The deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

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DISTRESS
The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"

AGGRIEVE
Infringe on the rights of

CRUSHING
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"

DESOLATE
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

DISQUIET
The trait of seeming ill at ease

DULLNESS
A lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"

EMBITTER
Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more"

FEELPAIN

FLATNESS
Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

GRIMNESS
Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

INUNDATE
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

MOURNING
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

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BREAKDOWN
The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"

DRAWTEARS

EMPTINESS
The quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"

EXTREMITY
That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

MARTYRDOM
Any experience that causes intense suffering

OVERWHELM
Charge someone with too many tasks

PENITENCE
Remorse for your past conduct

PROSTRATE
Render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"