Pang vs. Rang

Often in plural: a paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.

Often in plural: a sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.

(transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

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.

a sudden sharp feeling;

Example: ‘pangs of regret’; ‘she felt a stab of excitement’; ‘twinges of conscience’;

a mental pain or distress;

Example: ‘a pang of conscience’;

a sharp spasm of pain

only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2

imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.