agonizing
[ag-uh-nahy-zing]
- accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
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Origin of agonizing
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Examples from the Web for agonizingly
Contemporary Examples
The latest opinion polls suggest it will be agonizingly close.
Heartsick, depressed, agonizingly lonely, she would disappear for days behind her locked bedroom doors.
Historical Examples
The details were overpowering, but the total picture was agonizingly clear.
The Next Logical StepBenjamin William Bova
A muffled sound, faint, but agonizingly definite—a woman's sobs!
The Secret WitnessGeorge Gibbs
An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens.
Operation TerrorWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
A glance told him it was empty; but he felt with his hands in all the dim corners, agonizingly whispering her name.
Two on the TrailHulbert Footner
It was as if someone had prodded him in an agonizingly sore place and he reacted instinctively.
The Black TideArthur G. Stangland