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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Agonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... always made a strong appeal to me, but never one of simple grief or sorrow. Its expression is rather of great dignity, and I remember watching in somewhat of awe one which grew near my childhood's home, as its branches writhed and twisted in a violent rain-storm, seeming then fairly to agonize, so tossed and buffeted were they by the wind. But soon the storm ceased, the sun shone on the rounded head of the willow, turning the raindrops to quickly vanishing diamonds, and the great tree breathed only a gentle and benignant peace. When, in later ...
— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... weary of; and not deal in the greatest seriousness with the affection which he knew that he had awakened in her—so fervid and so impressionable as she was under her reserve—in order that it might not agonize and wreck her? ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy



Words linked to "Agonize" :   pain, hurt, agonise, anguish, agony, suffer



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