A pang is a sharp jab or an intense hurt that comes on suddenly. If you've felt an all of a sudden, deep sadness that seems to hit you even in the back of the eyes, you've probably had a pang of emotion over a loss or a tragic story.
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe;
Noun
a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"
Noun
a sharp spasm of pain
Noun
a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience"
n.
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and
transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
v. t.
To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to
torment.
Pang
Pang
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe;
To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
Usage Examples
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
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Other Usage ExamplesAlways it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.