A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
War[wick]. See how the pangs of death do make him grin. / Sal[isbury]. Diſturbe him not, let him paſſe peaceably.
A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?" It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it.
To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
Yet if that quarrell, Fortune, to diuorce / It from the bearer, 'tis a ſufferance, panging / As ſoule and bodies ſeuering.
A surname from Chinese.
A surname from Khmer.
A minor river in Berkshire, England, which flows into the Thames at Pangbourne.
The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, prōnge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth ...
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simple past of ping