agonize
verb (used without object)
to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
agonise
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a variation of
agonize.
Example Sentences
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He said that representations in favour of assisted dying from constituents who have witnessed loved ones suffer terribly at the end of their lives caused him to agonise over his decision.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
She took to Twitter to agonise about the fate of her father's eponymous telecoms firm, Rogers, a giant in Canada's corporate landscape and the centrepiece of their family's multi-billion dollar dynasty.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2021
We now have seven months to agonise over everything again in advance of the French leg.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2016
They agonise about so-called third-party lawsuits, whereby outsiders pay for one side in a legal dispute in order to make a point.
From Economist ● Jun. 2, 2016
Let us not forget the Brother's manhood that had to agonise and to suffer and to die as the price of our salvation.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
