pang

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PANG, noun Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, a sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. Isaiah 21:3. I saw the hoary traitor, Grin in the pangs of death, and bit the ground. PANG, verb transitive To torture; to give extreme pain to.
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