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How to pronounce agony in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms torment, torture
Type of hurt, suffering
Derivation agonal, agonise, agonist


an agony of doubt.
Type Words
Synonyms excruciation, suffering
Type of pain, hurting
Has types passion, passion of christ, throe
Derivation agonal, agonise, agonist, agonize

Examples of agony

agony
You can tell by your children if they are in pain and she was in absolute agony.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In which hecklerspray's resident agony uncle Dennis Norden solves your problems.
From the hecklerspray.com
On some level, surely the agony of irony evokes at least a smirk of recognition.
From the kansas.com
If you double your affections, you only double your agony in the end, don't you?
From the sltrib.com
When my female Physiotherapist stretched them I used to thump the wall in agony.
From the expressandstar.com
Yet New Zealand suffered the agony of cricket often being a game of centimetres.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Her baby will scream in agony and she will be powerless to do anything about it.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
No economic perspective because capitalism in it's death-agony doesn't have one.
From the economist.com
The film then proceeding to wallow in images of his agony until he died in 1964.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
More examples
  • Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
  • A state of acute pain
  • (agonized) expressing pain or agony; "agonized screams"
  • (agonizing) extremely painful
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