agonizing

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/ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

alive, over, patient, slow, united

VERB + AGONIZING

died, hurt, suffering

AGONIZING + NOUN

america, death, home, paris, pigeons, suspicion, twenty-minute

PREP.

during

Definitions

adj

Causing physical or mental agony.

It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

noun

The act of one who agonizes.

I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.

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Synonyms

adjective — extremely painful

agonising
excruciating
harrowing
torturing
torturous
torturesome

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

Wiktionary

I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.

Wiktionary

It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women.

Tatoeba · #377090

It is agonizing for the United States to lose its young men and women.

Tatoeba · #1355086

Between the sweating tourists and the agonizing pigeons, Paris, during the summer, is madly elegant!

Tatoeba · #1745542

The pain is agonizing.

Tatoeba · #1946906

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