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agonising

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Adj.1.agonisingagonising - extremely painful                    
agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous
painful - causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"


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Had we only been able to see a day into the future, we might have spared ourselves this agonising, for all our doubts and fears were suddenly dispersed in an entirely unexpected manner.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Though he dreaded humiliation more than anything in the world, he hugged himself for two or three days at the thought of the agonising joy of humiliating himself to the Glory of God.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
That sauce was made up of contradictions and sufferings, of agonising inward analysis, and all these pangs and pin-pricks gave a certain piquancy, even a significance to my dissipation--in fact, completely answered the purpose of an appetising sauce.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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