agonizing

Etymology

adj

  1. Causing physical or mental agony.
    It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of agonize

noun

  1. The act of one who agonizes.
    I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew. 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago

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