anguishing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]anguishing
- present participle and gerund of anguish
- 2007 January 2, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Kissinger’s Appearance Revives Memories of Vietnam Era”, in New York Times[1]:
- Given Mr. Kissinger’s firsthand experience in the anguishing decisions about withdrawal from Vietnam, the disclosure sparked the inevitable Iraq-Vietnam comparisons that Mr. Bush has assiduously sought to avoid.
Noun
[edit]anguishing (countable and uncountable, plural anguishings)
- A feeling or expression of anguish.