agonizing
About 1.09 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Causing physical or mental agony.
It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
- verb present participle and gerund of agonize
- noun The act of one who agonizes.
Similar words
excruciating painful harrowing torturing torturous torturesome agonising sore distressing grievous
Often followed by
over pain death and reappraisal to slowness for in
Word family
agonizingly
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