Agonizing

//ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who agonizes.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of agonize form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing physical or mental agony.

    "It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results."

Adjective
  1. 1
    extremely painful wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
excruciatingacuteafflictiveagonisingailsomeatrocious

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"It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women."

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