1. pang - Noun
2. pang - Verb
3. Pang - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn 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
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. Oliver Goldsmith
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. Robert Browning
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion? Agatha Christie
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. Colley Cibber
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous. Juvenal