anguishing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of anguish

   “Given Mr. Kissinger’s firsthand experience in the anguishing decisions about withdrawal from Vietnam, the disclosure sparked the inevitable Iraq-Vietnam comparisons that Mr. Bush has assiduously sought to avoid.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A feeling or expression of anguish.