agonizedadj.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O His spirites yearning empassionment, and agonizd fiery thirst of reuenge.

1760 A. Gerard Infl. Pastoral Office on Char. Examined 31 If his faultering tongue should attempt to dissemble the anguish of his soul,..his agonized and despairing look proclaim it in more striking language.

1797 Monthly Rev. 24 App. 520 She read in his agonized features the torments which his tongue concealed.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxii. 279 One wild, booming, agonized note.

1882 Daily News 7 Mar. 5/4 His reading being interrupted by..agonised yawns, and other signs of impatience.

1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare iv. 51 He was making an agonized effort to detach himself from a suffering which, he felt, was gnawing at his own life.

1944 C. Beaton Diary 10 Apr. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 129 Both men and women wear almost permanently an agonized expression of effort.

2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 63 I amaze her by emitting an agonized shriek.

1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 4 The anguish of his agonized soule.

1764 A. Lee Ess. Vindic. Continental Colonies Amer. 12 Dashing the infant against the stones, in view of the agonized mother.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 329 ‘He is dead!’ screamed the agonized parent.

1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §8. 553 The agonized loyalty, which strove to save Charles.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 14/2 She got up, spent and worn with weeping, and went in to Peggy, sitting for a few minutes beside the agonized woman.

1990 Scope Summer 23/1 The furniture-makers took to manufacturing special gout stools on which sufferers could support their agonized feet.

2007 J. Lipton Inside Inside vii. 150 In a lively competition, [they] were taking turns telling jokes to the agonized patient.

1793 H. M. Williams Lett. France IV. 6 Does not his remembrance—his agonized remembrance—glance back on those days?

1839 M. H. Barker Hamilton King I. vii. 257 Upwards of two hours had thus passed in agonized suspense.

1897 Etude Nov. 290/1 Reading the poem through with agonized fascination, the melody we are all so familiar with rapidly assumed form and shape in his mind.

1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry xix. 267 She had remained insulated..each year more passionately given to hymnody and agonized solitary prayer.

1988 R. Powers Prisoner's Dilemma (1996) xiv. 259 After several agonized months, Artie switched to prelaw on his own volition.

2001 Kwa'mboka in L. Ross & Y. Brissett Whispers in Walls 216 During the first agonized week she took to staring at the road through her pristine net curtains.