Anguish [noun]

Early that Sunday morning, as Americans across the country prepared excitedly to return to houses of worship, Butler, a churchgoer himself, poured his anguish and anger into an email to a few colleagues.

I have seen your tears, I have heard your frustration and anguish.

So Joe knows the anguish of sitting at a table with an empty chair, which is why he gives his time so freely to grieving parents.

A new report attempts to clarify that distinction, perhaps helping to ease the anguish of family members with a loved one whose brain has died but whose heart still beats.

She suddenly sank back upon the pillow and gave up to bitter anguish, when she recalled what had followed.

Oddly enough, in that moment of anguish he thought of Hodson, the man who rode alone from Kurnaul to Meerut.

The eyes of the Marchioness and her daughter met with an anguish of commiseration in each, neither of them could utter.

Her own wild imaginings made death seem preferable to the anguish of her belief that Frank had fallen.

We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.

In Miss Ashton's case there was a feature some are spared—her love had been known—and it increased the anguish tenfold.