pang
pang
Definition
pang (paŋ)
noun
a sudden, sharp, and brief pain, physical or emotional; spasm of distress
Etymology: < ? LME pronge: see prong
pang
Synonyms
pang
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- feel: I felt a pang of fear creep in deep down to the pit of my stomach.
- suffer: My womb, which did not suffer the pangs of childbirth, is wracked with pain, beholding Thee suffering agony, O Master!
- keep: This year it is hoped to have a big pan of broth on the boil to keep the hunger pangs at bay.
- experience: IAN: I've never experienced any pangs of jealousy about that I must say.
- get: Sandwiches are also available to take away so you can enjoy the festival without getting hunger pangs.
Preposition: at
- bay: This year it is hoped to have a big pan of broth on the boil to keep the hunger pangs at bay.
Adjective modifier
- sudden: Listening to Test Match Special recently, I felt a sudden pang of sympathy for TMS's veteran producer Peter Baxter.
- sharp: A sharp pang of sorrow shot through him at the thought.
- slight: I must admit to feeling more than a slight pang of emotion!
- little: Sometimes I do feel a little pang of regret because I love science and technology.
Modifies a noun
- strike: But when hunger pangs strike, this placid fish changes character.
Noun used with modifier
- hunger: Instead, the best option is to avoid the hunger pangs in the first place.
- guilt: He would learn to live with moody hangovers and guilt pangs and anyway, they only lasted until the next dram.
- birth: His thought is that these birth pangs may begin in 1996, with the actual birth taking place in 1999?
Preposition: of
- remorse: Few people can see their castles knocked down without pangs of remorse.
- guilt: In disbelief, I felt the first pangs of guilt for failing to be the mother I had always thought myself to be.
- conscience: There would have been a lot of them who would have felt real pangs of conscience about what had happened on that Good Friday.
- jealousy: IAN: I've never experienced any pangs of jealousy about that I must say.
- hunger: Toward the evening of his third day, he had suffered very severely from the pangs of hunger.
- childbirth: And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree.
Browse dictionary entries near pang
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