Definition of "anguishing" []

• Present participle of anguish. (verb)

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• "By his own admission, it was an "anguishing" week for Pat Buchanan."
• "At the end of this week's hearings before the Judiciary Committee, he said he was "anguishing" over the decision."
• "The anguishing power of these scenes—even stronger now than in the shell-shock of the days just following the attack—comes not only from the sight of those silent, distant figures, arms flailing, jumping from a window 101 floors high, but from the people below who watch, weeping and screaming."