agonizing
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- agonising (non-Oxford British English)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)
- Causing physical or mental agony.
- It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
causing agony
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Verb[edit]
agonizing
- present participle and gerund of agonize
Noun[edit]
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.