Pang
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
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Pang Quotations
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Knute Nelson
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Euripedes
Pang Translations
pang in German is Schmerz, Stechen
pang in Spanish is punzada
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