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AGONIZING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does agonizing mean?
• AGONIZING (adjective)
The adjective AGONIZING has 1 sense:
1. extremely painful
Familiarity information: AGONIZING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely painful
Synonyms:
agonising; agonizing; excruciating; harrowing; torturesome; torturing; torturous
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
Context examples
“He, at least, after the customary agonizing of youth, found content and made of his materialism a joyous thing.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In mid air, just as his jaws were about to close on the man, he received a shock that checked his body and brought his teeth together with an agonizing clip.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In point of fact, the chief vent to this primal melancholy has been religion in its more agonizing forms.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The pain from my hurt knee was agonizing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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