pang

[Pang]

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.

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A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

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 , n. [Prob. for older prange. Cf. Prong.] A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death. Syn. -- Agony; anguish; distress. See Agony.

Pang

Pang, v. t. To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment. [R.] Shak.

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

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Usage Examples

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Always 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.

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