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agony Noun

— Agony is extremely bad suffering with strong pain.

agony

— noun (= torment) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain an agony of doubt the torments of the damned — noun a state of acute pain

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suffering anguish pain torment distress torture misery affliction worry trouble hardship fear death throes anxiety grief pang excruciation death struggle ache sorrow pangs of death mortal moment latter end last struggle death-pangs death agony cross bitterness woe weak vexation upset tsoris travail toil throe suspense stress sore sluggish sickness sheer hell sadness sad psychorrhagia problem passion pangs pains painfulness

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Person Healthy Symptom of disease

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Simple sentences

The soldier lay in agony on the bed.

Love is agony, lovelessness is death.

Tom was in agony.

At the time of her death, she suffers agony.

Prolong the agony.

He lay in agony until the doctor arrived.

He was in agony.

He held back a cry of agony.

She screamed in agony.

I just love to read the agony column in teenage magazines.

Agony in the era of machinery is not attributed to machinery itself.

She was in agony.

Tom was writhing in agony.

Tom mistook Mary's singing for a cry of agony.

I was in agony.

Tom was in an agony.

Movie subtitles

I ask of thee only a moment of agony.

I saw my boyhood friends blown to bits. I saw men crumple up in agony when I shot them.

Every agony you've given will return.

Even my agony was a kind of joy.

He was in agony from thirst.

Don't forget, the great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by a great agony of body and spirit.

The day dragged by in an agony of suspense for me.

Now every mile closer to England is agony for me.

Isn't the inner agony of my creating enough without you carving me to bits?

For five years, I lived in a nightmare of hate, reliving the agony I suffered because of this!

It's agony.

There's a pain beyond pain, an agony so intense. it shocks the mind into instant oblivion.

But if the empire and the emperor pursue the course of aggression and slavery that have brought agony and despair to the world, if there's nothing left but chains and hunger, then my king will march to right those wrongs.

I'm in agony!

Can none of my citizens follow the example of their governor. who endures the utmost agony without a murmur?

After eating it, she went to bed. She's probably rolling around in agony now.

I saw men crumple up in agony when I shot them.

Beverly Carlton. Come in here, you Piccadilly penpusher and gaze upon a soul in agony.

Human beings are its chosen prey and its venom once injected into the blood stream causes such excruciating agony that the victim is driven to self-destruction.

I'm going to give you the brain of the Wolf Man, so that all your waking hours will be spent in untold agony, awaiting the full of the moon, which will change you into a werewolf.

Each of these red flags scattered through the city stands for a woman brutally murdered, a woman's terror, a woman's death agony.

Death agony. The left hand lies open.

Why only one hand clenched in the death agony?

You'll never know the agony it cost me sitting here, cool, while you talked about horses and I yearned to throw myself into your arms.

No use prolonging the agony.

Has it been agony?

He's been in horrible agony since Sunday.

What agony and sorrow they bring to other people.

People scuffling. A man crying out in agony.

Awoke you not with this sore agony?

Why didn't I die in the orchard. and end the agony there?

Put them out of their agony.

The prisoner has endured three days of profound mental agony and shock.

No matter how fast I am, I still can't save them that terrible agony.

But we only know of one way to reduce the agony. operate quickly.

Charles, it'd be a crime to let that agony go on a day, an hour longer than necessary.

News and current affairs

Despite many past promises of a cleanup, Ogoniland remains in environmental agony, impoverished and sickened by the oil industry.

These developments offer hope that current and future homeowners will be spared the agony of worrying about the vicissitudes of the real estate market.

The President's stem cell policy - developed without consulting Congress - impedes US science and cruelly prolongs the agony of millions of sick and suffering people.

Core countries, meanwhile, argue that they can do little to strengthen aggregate demand and relieve pressure on their partners, even as the periphery's agony is dragging the core into recession, owing to its dependence on peripheral export markets.

Does it trump the real, if less bloody, agony and fear of hundreds of thousands Israelis over long years?

Part of Syria's agony is the self-fulfilling nature of the conflict.

As long as that remains true, Haiti's agony will continue.

The murder of 11 provincial legislators held hostage by Colombia's FARC guerrillas is a reminder of that country's eternal agony.

Then, in four or five years, Microsoft will begin our agony all over again.

Resolving Libya's agony will take more than military action.

Putin's return to the Kremlin, although painful, could end up curtailing their agony by triggering the regime's destruction.

There is no denying that Gaza's agony is a humanitarian disaster.

But, despite the supposed novelty of their vision, their actions seem only to be replicating the self-destructive policies that have brought such agony to Cuba.

Then, last January, Aquino managed to achieve a landmark deal that finally ended Mindanao's agony.

Terror can prolong the agony, but in the end an illegitimate regime is doomed.

Following the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a new opportunity to end Syria's agony has emerged, because all the important players (except ISIS) are now willing to sit down together at the negotiating table.

The perception that his true objective in supporting the Islamic State is to stem the rise of the Kurds, bolstered by his apparent indifference to the agony in Kobani, has jeopardized one of his major legacies: peace talks with the PKK.

This is the agony of democracy, and it is why the next year may prove to be the most unstable, and even dangerous, period in decades for the Korean peninsula and the region.

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