Agonized
involving or accompanied by or severe struggle:
an agonized effort.
to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in .
to put forth great effort of any kind.
to distress with extreme pain; torture.
contemporary examples
as president barack obama plays an agonized hamlet over afghanistan, the ice is cracking beneath his feet on capitol hill.
with friends like these martin sieff october 6, 2009
announcement videos are agonized over internally, so a bit of close-reading can be revealing.
tim pawlenty’s obstacle course john avlon march 22, 2011
most important, he was a mother figure—he cared for them, re-ssured them, agonized on them, nagged them, even wept for them.
what it was like to watch the beatles become the beatles—nik cohn remembers nik cohn february 8, 2014
historical examples
with agonized prescience the sailor knew that he was yielding.
the wings of the morning louis tracy
no leisure is here, only quivering, intense, agonized anxiety.
the forest stewart edward white
suddenly, jack’s voice ceased abruptly, to be succeeded a moment later by his agonized cry for “help.”
the radio boys on the mexican border gerald breckenridge
mr. jim fletcher, whose place was next him, uttered an agonized “ow!”
galusha the magnificent joseph c. lincoln
nearly eighteen hours had elapsed, since she had stolen, half-fainting, from the sight of richard’s white and agonized face.
the ivory snuff box arnold fredericks
d-ck lifted his agonized face and stared into elsa’s tear wet eyes.
the forbidden trail honor willsie
never had she heard a human voice so persuasive, and yet so agonized in its intensity.
not like other girls rosa n. carey
verb
to suffer or cause to suffer agony
(intransitive) to make a desperate effort; struggle; strive
v.
1580s, “to torture,” from middle french agoniser or directly from medieval latin agonizare, from greek agonizesthai “to contend in the struggle” (see agony). intransitive sense of “to suffer physical pain” is recorded from 1660s. that of “to worry intensely” is from 1853. related: agonized; agonizing.
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