agonize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To worry or think very anxiously about a difficult decision.

   She agonized for weeks over which job to take.

2. 2
   verb

   To suffer great physical or mental pain.

   He lay agonizing in pain until the ambulance arrived.

From French agoniser, from Late Latin agonizare, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνίζομαι (agōnízomai, “to fight, contend”). See agony. By surface analysis, agon + -ize.

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