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Definition of Pang
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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Agony, And, Anguish, As, Cause, Death, Extreme, Great, Have, Of, Or, Pain, Paroxysm, Sudden, Suffering, The, Throe, To, Torment, Torture, Transitory


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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