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Adjective: agonizing  'a-gu,nI-zing
  1. Extremely painful
    "After a week of fighting with the court systems, I have decided to concede agonizing defeat";
    - agonising [Brit], excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome
Verb: agonize  'a-gu,nIz
  1. Suffer mental stress while worrying or deliberating about something
    "he agonized over the decision for days";
    - agonise [Brit]
     
  2. Cause to agonize
    "The difficult decision agonized him for weeks";
    - agonise [Brit]

See also: painful

Type of: ache, anguish, hurt, pain, suffer

Encyclopedia: Agonize