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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
Agony across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Canada
Common
United States of America
Common
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