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Agonize   Listen
verb
Agonize  v. i.  (past & past part. agonized; pres. part. agonizing)  
1.
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. "To smart and agonize at every pore."
2.
To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.





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"Agonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... sits up o'nights to agonize because a few naked niggers in equatorial Africa never heard Eve's snake story, how Job scratched himself with a broken pie- plate or the hog happened to be so full of the spirit of hades; that robs childhood of its pennies ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... part of Nature as the brutality itself," he said, and he insisted that the supreme business of man, was to evolve a scheme of life on a higher plane, wherein the weak shall not be forced to agonize for the strong, so far as mankind can intervene to prevent it. Let man follow the dictates of pity and generosity in his own soul. They would never lead him astray. While Miss Du Prel laid the whole blame upon natural law, the Professor impeached humanity. ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... discord extends to manners. Public conveyances and public places produce so many girls who are not gentle, retiring, shady, attractive. They are flingy and sharp and saucy, without being piquant. They take on airs without having the beauty or the brilliancy which alone makes airs delightful. They agonize to make an impression, and they make it, but not always in the line of their intent. Setting out to be picturesque, they become uncouth. They are ridiculous when they mean to be interesting, and silly when they try to be playful. If they would only leave off attitudinizing, ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton
... friend,—be a man! be the Christian you wish to be thought: consider that this fellow-man of ours has a dearly-loved family. If you have that card which the seconds gave you twelve years ago, don't agonize or terrify him any more; write to him that "the account is settled," and give over to him that horrible deed of contract. I shall honor you till my death for it. I know that in any case you will do it one day before it is too late. You will ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai


Words linked to "Agonize" :   pain, agony, hurt, suffer, anguish, agonise


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