agonizing

UK /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/ US /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/
adj 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Causing physical or mental agony.

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

noun

1

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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