(plural agonies) [U,C] extreme physical or mental pain:
Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. * It was agony not knowing where the children were. * She waited in an agony of suspense. * The worst agonies of the war were now beginning. * It is inhuman to keep a man facing the agony of execution for so long.
IDIOMS see PILEv.
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