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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For now, Asal and her family in Canada continue to agonise about the case, wishing for a reunion.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
Artists and animators and musicians agonise over every detail they include, and so the upshot is that sometimes, they get that world so right that it can teach us little bits about our own.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2021
“You suck the marrow out of it and agonise over it, to feel you’ve got to grips with it.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2016
Online dating leaves a trail of digital events to agonise over, depending on how emotionally vulnerable you feel.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
I’m always living through other people’s dramas, and tearing my heart to fiddle-strings imagining how I should agonise and despair if I were in the same place.
From Lady Cassandra by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
