mental anguish

  • 1mental anguish — men·tal an·guish n: a high degree of emotional pain, distress, torment, or suffering that may aggravate a crime or be a subject of an action for damages or wrongful death: emotional distress Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster.… …

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  • 2mental anguish — When connected with a physical injury, this term includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. As an element of damages implies a relatively high degree of mental pain… …

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  • 3mental anguish — When connected with a physical injury, this term includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. As an element of damages implies a relatively high degree of mental pain… …

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  • 4mental anguish — Grief. Mental suffering as distinguished from physical pain, but inclusive of the mental reaction to physical pain and suffering caused by a personal injury. 22 Am J2d Damg § 195 …

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  • 5mental anguish — noun sustained dull painful emotion • Hypernyms: ↑pain, ↑painfulness …

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  • 6mental suffering — mental suf·fer·ing n: emotional distress Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. mental suffering …

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  • 7anguish — I verb ache, aggrieve, agonize, desolate, disturb, excruciate, grieve, harry, make miserable, pain, prostrate, rack, suffer, torment, torture, trouble, writhe associated concepts: mental anguish, noneconomic loss, pain and suffering II index pain …

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  • 8anguish — n. (formal) 1) to cause anguish 2) deep; mental anguish 3) anguish at, over 4) in anguish (in anguish over smb. s death) * * * [ æŋgwɪʃ] mental anguish over (formal) to cause anguish deep anguish at …

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  • 9mental cruelty — A course of conduct on the part of one spouse toward the other spouse which can endanger the mental and physical health and efficiency of the other spouse to such an extent as to render continuance of the marital relation intolerable. As a ground …

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  • 10mental cruelty — A course of conduct on the part of one spouse toward the other spouse which can endanger the mental and physical health and efficiency of the other spouse to such an extent as to render continuance of the marital relation intolerable. As a ground …

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