MEANING
A brief sharp feeling of pain or emotion.
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- pang of regret
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A pang of regret stopped her.
Hunger pangs disturbed his sleep.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular pang; plural pangs. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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