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[ ag-uh-nahy-zing ] / ˈæg əˌnaɪ zɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR agonizing ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveaccompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not. Origin of agonizingFirst recorded in 1660–70; agonize + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM agonizingag·o·niz·ing·ly, adverbWords nearby agonizingagonic line, agonist, agonistic, agonize, agonized, agonizing, agony, agony aunt, agony column, agony uncle, a good deal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for agonizingHe makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead. Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST What followed was an agonizing spectacle that ended when Lockett died at 7.06 p.m.—43 minutes after the drugs began to flow. Lethal Injection Leads to the Most Botched Executions|Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST It catalogues a massive but doomed police investigation through its agonizing near-misses and mistaken hunches. A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France|Tracy McNicoll|April 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog. Ad's Message to Moms: If You Don’t Think Parenting Sucks, You’re Doing it Wrong|Andy Hinds|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The opposition is afraid of the past because its revered members are culpable for some of the most agonizing memories it evokes. Bangladesh’s Radical Islamists Get U.S. Backing|Kapil Komireddi|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then followed for the less fortunate the long and agonizing march to the seaboard. Our Foreigners|Samuel P. Orth With what agonizing suspense they waited could not be described. In Search of the Castaways|Jules Verne If asleep, dreams of agonizing forms and ever-varying hues have thronged my fancy and driven away peace. Jane Talbot|Charles Brockden Brown Two days of agonizing suspense, of alternate hope and despair, had told heavily on Marguerite Blakeney. The Elusive Pimpernel|Baroness Emmuska Orczy The afternoons when the bull-fighter fought in Seville were agonizing for his family as well as for himself. The Blood of the Arena|Vicente Blasco Ibez
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