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Webster 1828 Edition
Agonizing
AG'ONIZING
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Definition 2024
agonizing
agonizing
English
Adjective
agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)
- Causing agony.
- It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
Translations
causing agony
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Verb
agonizing
- present participle of agonize
Noun
agonizing (plural agonizings)
- The act of one who agonizes.
- 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
- 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.
- 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago