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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



... impulses. Is it right, can it possibly be right, for him to go forth to destroy his own friends and relatives; shall he shed the blood of those who are nearest and dearest to him upon the earth? This is the agonizing doubt which seizes upon him at this time. And in his distress he turns to his friend and relative, Krishna, who has declined to participate in the war, but who had volunteered to act as Arjuna's charioteer. And he says unto him: "Seeing these kinsmen, O Krishna, standing (here) desirous to ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones
... was off, rushing down again, tearing away the cover he had provided for the telephone. He had to wait an agonizing two or three minutes before there was any answer, and once more he was sure that the wire must have been discovered and cut. But at last there was an answering voice in his ear, ...
— The Belgians to the Front • Colonel James Fiske
... make no headway against its monstrous assemblage of horror. There was something in that jagged black hill against the moonshine and the gigantic basin of darkness out of which it rose that seemed to gather all these gaunt and grisly effects into one appalling heap of agonizing futility. That rock rose up and crouched like something that ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
... the sound of the first warning bugle the head of the column began to move, just as daylight was breaking. Comparatively few of the officers of Ralph's regiment were married men, and there were therefore fewer of those agonizing partings that wrung the hearts of many belonging to regiments that had been quartered for some time at home; but Ralph saw enough to convince him that the soldier should remain a single man at any rate during such times as he is likely to be called upon ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... story of a decent, ambitious man, employed in a sweatshop tailoring establishment, who contracted tuberculosis from the foul air, and who dragged down with him, in his agonizing descent to the very depths of misery, a wife and two children. He was now dead, and his wife was living in a corner of a moldy, damp basement, a pile of rags the only bed for her and her children, their only heat what fire the mother could make out of paper ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield


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