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AGONIZED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does agonized mean?
• AGONIZED (adjective)
The adjective AGONIZED has 1 sense:
1. expressing pain or agony
Familiarity information: AGONIZED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing pain or agony
Synonyms:
agonised; agonized
Context example:
agonized screams
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
Context examples
Nor would you, or, rather, should you, accept the ravings and writhings and agonized contortions of those two lunatics to-night as a convincing portrayal of love.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Eighty feet beneath, I could see the agonized strain of his muscles as he gripped for very life.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Dare I ask Mr. T. to endeavour to step in between Mr. Micawber and his agonized family?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All the woes of tortured life, all its stupendous indictment of high heaven, its innumerable sorrows, seemed to be centered and condensed into that one dreadful, agonized cry.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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