Usually means: Experiencing severe physical or mental pain.
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  1. agonising: Merriam-Webster
  2. agonising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agonising: Collins English Dictionary
  4. agonising: Vocabulary.com
  5. Agonising, agonising: Wordnik
  6. agonising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. agonising: Wiktionary
  8. agonising: Dictionary.com
  9. agonising: Rhymezone
  10. agonising: FreeDictionary.org
  11. agonising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. agonising: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Causing agony; very painful
▸ noun:  Alternative form of agonizing [The act of one who agonizes.]

Similar:
agonize, excruciating, agony, anguishing, agonisingly, painful, torturous, gruelling, harrowing, painstaking, more...

Opposite:
pleasurable, enjoyable, delightful, pleasant

Types:
physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential, chronic, acute, psychological, more...

Phrases:
agonising pain, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, public, exquisitely, sudden, little, intellectual, whole

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Similar:
agonize, excruciating, agony, anguishing, agonisingly, painful, torturous, gruelling, harrowing, painstaking, more...

Opposite:
pleasurable, enjoyable, delightful, pleasant

Types:
physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential, chronic, acute, psychological, more...

Phrases:
agonising pain, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, public, exquisitely, sudden, little, intellectual, whole



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