agony
IPA: ˈægʌni
noun
- Extreme pain.
- (biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
- Violent contest or striving.
- Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
- The last struggle of life; death struggle.
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Examples of "agony" in Sentences
- He had to watch the agony of his mother.
- The agony of stabbing brooches pierces me
- The reward is not commensurate with the agony.
- It was an agony to watch the game in the dressing room.
- The procedure is a failure and the woman dies in agony.
- The only sin that deserves a recompense of immortal agony
- Today is the grand uprising of the agony of universal man.
- I suppose this is just the agony and the ecstasy of astronomy.
- They discussed the agony and the ecstasy of the 1992 General Election.
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