单词 | anguish-torn |
释义 | > as lemmasanguish-torn As a modifier, with the sense ‘by anguish’, as in anguish-racked, anguish-stricken, anguish-torn, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 409 In his heart Telemachus that blow Resented, anguish-torn, yet not a tear He shed. 1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 11 Jan. 322 The anguish-stricken wife of Toxaris. 1847 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 534/1 She did not know on whose anguish-riven bosom her head rested. 1880 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 14 Feb. 1/4 His anguish-worn features. 1904 A. E. Waite Knowing Thy Likeness in Coll. Poems 193 Thou ragest, passionful and anguish-tost. Grand art thou then, yet peace is far from thee! 1966 Winnipeg Free Press 14 Oct. 49/4 Brian Macdonald's anguish-racked invention, While the Spider Slept,..made the most telling effect of the evening. 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Dec. d1 As the opera intensifies, the anguish-ravaged Marguerite drowns her baby in a basin of holy water. < as lemmas |
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