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Meanings of agony in English

Portuguese
agonia

Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain.

        agonia
        Portuguese
        sofrimento
        Catalan
        sofriment
        Spanish
        sufrimiento

        A state of acute pain.

              sofrimento

              It is no longer an incurable disease, but you have to pay a high cost of treatment.

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                    Suffering of intense degree, relating to physical or mental suffering.

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                            Usage of agony in English
                            1
                            If they try to feed on them, it causes them physical agony.
                            Blood rites
                            2
                            All that agony of mortality-justto deal with the problem of entropy.
                            For Love Of Evil
                            3
                            Losing in Lisbon hurt; defeat in Milan two years later was agony.
                            The Guardian
                            4
                            The culprit passed a sleepless night in the intolerable agony of lear.
                            Rattlin the Reefer
                            5
                            But the Iraq agony is not going to end any time soon.
                            The Guardian
                            6
                            What agony of mind must Hetty be in, let alone physical danger?
                            New york: the novel
                            7
                            I understood its remoteness; in my agony I was part of it.
                            Montlivet
                            8
                            She wrung her hands and sat down in agony in the hall.
                            Twenty-Two Goblins
                            9
                            The girl wailed out again in agony and writhed in her bonds.
                            Okewood of the Secret Service
                            10
                            For years after the war, even the smallest decision was an agony.
                            Fugitive pieces
                            11
                            It was the agony of death; it was a struggle for life.
                            Invisible Links
                            12
                            It is a torture long and slow; the agony and bloody sweat.
                            With Rimington
                            13
                            The waves writhed and tossed on the surface as if in agony.
                            Chasing the Sun
                            14
                            The girl sank down on the road in an agony of weeping.
                            Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
                            15
                            All the delicacy in him felt the agony of her outraged reserve.
                            In the Wilderness
                            16
                            Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world.
                            Pascal's Pensées
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                            Agony through the time
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