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agonize /ˈaɡənʌɪz/ (or agonise)
▶verb
  • 1 undergo great mental anguish through worrying over something.
  • 2 (usu. as adj. agonizing) cause agony to.
– derivatives
agonizingly adverb.
– origin C16: from Fr. agoniser or late L. agonizare, from Gk agōnizesthai ‘contend’, from agōn ‘contest’.



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