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Pang


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.