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Agonizing   /ˈægənaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Agonize  v. t.  To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. "He agonized his mother by his behavior."


Agonize  v. i.  (past & past part. agonized; pres. part. agonizing)  
1.
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. "To smart and agonize at every pore."
2.
To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.


adjective
agonizing  adj.  Causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Synonyms: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome.





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"Agonizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably be lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful! A man can tell only so much truth; then he begins ...
— Goat-Feathers • Ellis Parker Butler
... announced threats to the Planetary State's planned expansion. He dwelt upon the desperation of having no place to hide in case of trouble with the authorities. A multiple system of such worlds was agonizing to imagine. ...
— The Talkative Tree • Horace Brown Fyfe
... rites. Is it a matter of wonder, that he unhesitatingly accorded to them, the distinction of being sacred? The emotional nature of this primitive man was a mystery which he could neither understand nor control. Often, he suffered untold tortures from the agonizing perturbations to which it easily became a prey. Hidden in the deep shade of his sacred grove, in his happier moments, the sighing of each passing breeze through his leafy canopy, become to his untrained ear, the whispered blessing of nature's placated God! When the dark pall of the ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson
... the reaction to disappointment was a violent, agonizing wrench. She lost all control of her muscles for a moment, and had to lean against the cabin ...
— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey
... with God and man. There was room for distrust in regard to the latter. At the conclusion of the prayer several of the little audience went out, leaving him to begin his discourse under such discouraging circumstances, added to his natural and agonizing diffidence. Knowing that my presence on these occasions increased his embarrassment, I had stationed myself in a dusky place near the door, and ...
— Passages From a Relinquised Work (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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