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AGONISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing pain or agony
Example:
agonized screams
Synonyms:
agonised; agonized
Classified under:
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb agonise
Context examples:
It seemed, however, that his poor injured brain had been working in the interval, for, when he was quite conscious, he looked at me piercingly with an agonised confusion which I shall never forget, and said:—"I must not deceive myself; it was no dream, but all a grim reality."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
