agonizing

English

Adjective

agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)

Causing physical or mental agony.
It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

Translations

causing agony

Esperanto: angoriga
French: agonisant (fr)
Manx: aaghaeragh

Persian: پر تب و تاب‎ (por tab-o-tâb)
Portuguese: agonizante (pt)
Spanish: terrible (es), angustioso (es)

Verb

agonizing

present participle of agonize

Noun

agonizing (plural agonizings)

The act of one who agonizes.
- 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
  I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.

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