agonizing

  • 11agonizing — adjective Date: 1593 causing agony ; painful < an agonizing experience > • agonizingly adverb …

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  • 12agonizing — agonizingly, adv. /ag euh nuy zing/, adj. accompanied 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. [1660 70; AGONIZE + ING2] * * * …

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  • 13agonizing — adjective Causing agony. It was an agonizing twenty minutes wait for the results …

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  • 14agonizing — adj. Agonizing is used with these nouns: ↑cramp, ↑death, ↑minute, ↑pain, ↑scream, ↑wait …

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  • 15agonizing — also ising BrE adjective extremely painful or difficult: agonizing pain agonizingly adverb …

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  • 16agonizing — adjective agonizing pain Syn: excruciating, harrowing, racking, searing, extremely painful, acute, severe, torturous, tormenting, piercing; informal hellish …

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  • 17agonizing — agonize (also agonise) ► VERB 1) worry greatly. 2) cause agony to. DERIVATIVES agonizing adjective …

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  • 18Agonizing Terror — est un groupe portugais de Death metal qui fait plus parlé de lui par ses problèmes lugubres que par sa musique. Biographie Formé en 1993 à Aveiro par Tojo et Sara (sa femme), au début ils s appelaient les Pain Possesed mais en 1994, ils&#8230; …

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  • 19agonizing reappraisal — agonizing reappraisal, any complete reassessment of a situation, especially one involving painful or unpleasant changes: »Many agonizing reappraisals have been directed to British Industry in the postwar period (New Scientist) …

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  • 20agonizing — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending,&#8230; …

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