agonizing

• agonising (non-Oxford British English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: ag‧o‧niz‧ing

agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)

1. Causing physical or mental agony.

   It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

agonizing

1. present participle and gerund of agonize

agonizing (plural agonizings)

1. 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.