AGONISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agonised mean? 

• AGONISED (adjective)
  The adjective AGONISED has 1 sense:

1. expressing pain or agony

  Familiarity information: AGONISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGONISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing pain or agony

Synonyms:

agonised; agonized

Context example:

agonized screams

Similar:

painful (causing physical or psychological pain)

 Context examples 

"Go on; go on! Speak, I command you!" said Van Helsing in an agonised voice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was agonised with the idea of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together—that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When at last he came to a stop, he gave one last agonised yell and then a long, whimpering wail.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonised entreaty, would make them even look at me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror, "Gott in Himmel!" needed no enforcement from his agonised face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Lucy was full of pity, too, but she did not attempt to touch the dog, but looked at it in an agonised sort of way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road—a long, agonised wailing, as if from fear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I sat I heard a sound in the courtyard without—the agonised cry of a woman.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)