agony

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I can't imagine the agony of trying to type out a SQL query on my phone.

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intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

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noun

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

noun

a state of acute pain

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for agony.

noun

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

noun

a state of acute pain

Example sentences

I can't imagine the agony of trying to type out a SQL query on my phone.

After it reaches 40 to 60 its teeth fall out and it slowly dies in agony from starvation.

In the time it's taken you to read this paragraph, a handful of children will have died in terror and agony.

There is a lot of agony now about socialization of the economy, but that is a bad joke.

You just might feel this guys agony in a few years, but you sound like a spolied brat--who's family will\nalways be there to pay the rent.

If anything, save yourself some agony by building something for a market that you know well, and are interested in.

But the UX is terrible and this is objectively so, just sit a new computer user in front of Gimp and watch his agony when trying to use it.

It's unbelievable that anyone has ever paid a dime for the right to slap their face in agony while attempting to deploy this pile of garbage.

The nurses and doctors and everyone seemed to give quiet nods of agreement after days of failed attempts to mitigate the constant grimace of agony.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy.

Thats somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations.

That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations.

She may be your mother, but a blood relation does not mean you should subject yourself to more agony, all because of the cult of personality we have created around the mother as some sacred idol.

The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.

> the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximumI'm not aware of anyone of any ideological stripe who insists disproportionate medical measures must be taken to keep somebody alive.