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agony

/ˈæɡ.ə.ni/noun3 syllables

Agony means: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain.

Synonyms for agony11

noun, as in intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

torment, torture

noun, as in a state of acute pain

suffering, excruciation

also used for agony

anguish, throe, distress, pang, anguishment, bereavement, living death

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What does agony mean?2

noun

1

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain“an agony of doubt”

2

a state of acute pain

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Agony in a sentence

  • At the time of her death, she suffers agony.carlosalberto
  • In some countries, an advice columnist is known as an agony aunt.AlanF_US
  • He lay in agony until the doctor arrived.CS
  • The soldier lay in agony on the bed.unknown
  • I spent the weekend writhing in agony when my gallstone started to move.unknown
  • I just love to read the agony column in teenage magazines.unknown
  • Agony in the era of machinery is not attributed to machinery itself.unknown
  • Ziri heard the sound of an animal in agony.Amastan

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Forms of agony

as a noun

plural
agonies