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    AGONISE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they agonise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it agonises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: agonised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: agonised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: agonising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Suffer agony or anguishplay

    Synonyms:

    agonise; agonize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of feeling

    Hypernyms (to "agonise" is one way to...):

    suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP

    Derivation:

    agony (intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain)

    agony (a state of acute pain)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Cause to agonizeplay

    Synonyms:

    agonise; agonize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of feeling

    Hypernyms (to "agonise" is one way to...):

    anguish; hurt; pain (cause emotional anguish or make miserable)

    Cause:

    agonise; agonize (suffer agony or anguish)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s somebody

    Sentence example:

    The bad news will agonise him


    Derivation:

    agony (intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain)

    agony (a state of acute pain)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    As I sat I heard a sound in the courtyard without—the agonised cry of a woman.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road—a long, agonised wailing, as if from fear.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonised entreaty, would make them even look at me.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    "Go on; go on! Speak, I command you!" said Van Helsing in an agonised voice.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, and then there was a sort of agonising feeling, as if I were in an earthquake, and I came back and found you shaking my body.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonising suspense said:—"It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work is undone; we must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now; I have to call on you yourself this time, friend John."

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    The silence finally became agonising.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    It seemed, however, that his poor injured brain had been working in the interval, for, when he was quite conscious, he looked at me piercingly with an agonised confusion which I shall never forget, and said:—"I must not deceive myself; it was no dream, but all a grim reality."

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)


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