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Meanings of agonize in English

Portuguese
supliciar
Catalan
turmentar-se

Suffer agony or anguish.

        supliciar
        Usage of agonize in English
        1
        They confer, they agonize, they threaten each other and scuffle for dominance.
        Children of Time
        2
        Others, particularly Britain, still agonize publicly over what they should do.
        Reuters
        3
        I did agonize over whether to come to you or not.
        In a gilded cage
        4
        For whom does God let Job suffer and seek and agonize?
        Three philosophies of life
        5
        We see our neighbors agonize over stagnant wages and lost jobs.
        Reuters
        6
        That makes it easy to agonize about what you don't know.
        Wired
        7
        Then why seek to agonize my heart with what I would gladly forget?
        The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
        8
        Why are we forced to agonize over discussions that most parents can't relate to?
        Ebony
        9
        He had expected him to agonize and have a tougher time making the decision.
        The cottage
        10
        It was a tough choice, but there was no time to agonize over it.
        Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
        11
        Love wasn't something she'd learned to define or agonize over.
        Public secrets
        12
        But it made no sense to agonize over a decision that was a foregone conclusion.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        13
        What's worse is that you'll agonize about doing that later if you go too far.
        Ebony
        14
        For two more days Rob did nothing but agonize.
        The genesis secret
        15
        You think Massy and his kind agonize like this?
        Jacinto's Remnant
        16
        Remembrances had ceased to agonize, to urge me to headlong acts and foster sanguinary purposes.
        Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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        Agonize through the time