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Adjective: anguished  ang-gwisht
  1. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
    "an anguished conscience";
    - tormented, tortured
Verb: anguish  ang-gwish
  1. Suffer great pains or distress
    "She anguished over her son's illness"
     
  2. Cause emotional anguish or make miserable
    "It anguishes me to see my children not being taught well in school";
    - pain, hurt

See also: sorrowful

Type of: ache, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, hurt, suffer, untune [rare], upset

Encyclopedia: Anguish, Charles