agonize
verb (used without object)
to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
are agonizing
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present progressiveof agonize.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Some National Guard members and their families are agonizing over troop deployments to Los Angeles in support of immigration enforcement operations, advocates say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
When she hears from voters who are agonizing over whether to purchase food or gas, she said, “I’m taken back to that place where we were in our family.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
Many Minnesota families are agonizing over whether to move their frail parents out of nursing homes.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2020
My wife and I are agonizing over a potential move due to imagined effects on our kids, ages 9 and 11.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
Now that British preachers and pamphleteers are agonizing over Mohammedan atrocities in Armenia, let us see what the latter thought of Christian domination in India.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
