Agonize
['æɡənaɪz]
Definition
(v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
(v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
(v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Torment, torture, rack, distress, pain severely, put in great pain.
v. n. Be tormented, be tortured, suffer great pain.
Checker: Seymour
Examples
- I was agonized with the idea of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Meanwhile he cast agonized glances in the direction of Miss Bart, whose only response was to sink into an attitude of more graceful abstraction. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I must do justice to my sweet sister: it was not for herself that she was thus agonized. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then he heard Jane's agonized cry: Cecil--Mr. Clayton! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her firm spirit had not found relief in tears, and she suffered the more from all the painful retrospect and agonizing regret that now occupied her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I think it arises from my feeling sometimes an agonizing pity for myself that I ever was born. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This was all true; but it was not less agonizing to take the admonition home. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What agonizing fondness did I feel for them! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Lorna