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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AG'ONIZE, v.t. [Gr. to strive. See Agony.]
To write with extreme pain; to suffer violent anguish.
To smart and agonize at every pore.
AG'ONIZE, v.t. To distress with extreme pain; to torture.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause to agonize [syn: agonize, agonise]
2: suffer agony or anguish [syn: agonize, agonise]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-nized; -nizing) Date: 1583 transitive verb to cause to suffer agony ; torture intransitive verb 1. to suffer agony, torture, or anguish <agonizes over every decision> 2. struggle

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (also -ise) 1 intr. (often foll. by over) undergo (esp. mental) anguish; suffer agony. 2 tr. cause agony to. 3 tr. (as agonized adj.) expressing agony (an agonized look). 4 intr. struggle, contend. Derivatives: agonizingly adv. Etymology: F agoniser or LL agonizare f. Gk agonizomai contend f. agon contest

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Agonize Ag"o*nize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Agonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Agonizing.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. ?. See Agony.] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Agonize Ag"o*nize, v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. --Thackeray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(agonizes, agonizing, agonized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'agonise' If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it. Perhaps he was agonizing over the moral issues involved... VERB: V over/about n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Torment, torture, rack, wring, distress, pain severely, put in great pain. II. v. n. Be tormented, be tortured, suffer great pain, struggle (inwardly or outwardly) with pain or sorrow, writhe with pain.

Moby Thesaurus

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