angst
To suffer angst; to fretTo suffer angst; to fret.
» Teenage angst is a part of life.
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1 senses(informal)To suffer angst; to fret.
Examples
7 sentencesTeenage angst is a part of life.
Don't angst out about something being hard.
Tom's anger and angst is slowly destroying him.
Yanni was fourteen and was in the throes of teenage angst.
Angst is the fear of our own incapacity for peace.
deAngst ist die Furcht vor unserer eigenen Unfähigkeit zum Frieden. — Esperantostern
Origin
Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English traBorrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44. The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz; related to anguish, Dutch angst, Swedish ångest.
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Forms
angsts, angsting, angsted, angstedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle