单词	agonizing
释义	agonizing nounagonizing adjective agonizeag‧o‧nize (also agonise British English) /ˈæɡənaɪz/ verb [intransitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE agonize Simple Form Present I, you, we, they agonize he, she, it agonizes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they agonized Present perfect I, you, we, they have agonized he, she, it has agonized Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had agonized Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will agonize Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have agonized Continuous Form Present I am agonizing he, she, it is agonizing you, we, they are agonizing Past I, he, she, it was agonizing you, we, they were agonizing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been agonizing he, she, it has been agonizing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been agonizing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be agonizing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been agonizing Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Did a college student serious about building his future at once have to agonize over his future? I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later - even when he was agonizing everyone. In one issue, Slepian agonizes over buying a $ 7, 000 hot tub. It wouldn't do, I thought, to agonize or weep, or be embarrassing or cheap. We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business. to think about a difficult decision very carefully and with a lot of effortagonize over/about All the way home she agonized about what she should do.—agonizing noun [uncountable] agonizing nounagonizing adjective agonizingag‧o‧niz‧ing (also agonising British English) /ˈæɡənaɪzɪŋ/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A year later he died after suffering months of agonizing pain. In retrospect, the decision to build the bomb was fraught with agonizing ambiguities. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many criminals were subjected to that agonizing death. The red line on the thermometer on the wall of Caxton House crept up with agonizing slowness. There was one present which gave Diana the most agonizing decision of her young life. Throughout these long, agonizing months, their lives are accompanied by the unending cacophony of my screaming. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwhen something makes someone feel pain► hurt if something or someone hurts you, they make you feel pain: · Did it hurt when they stuck the needle in?· Stop it - you're hurting me. ► sting to cause a sudden sharp pain on your skin or in your eyes for a short time: · The antiseptic might sting a little.· The smoke stung my eyes. ► irritate if a substance irritates a part of your body, especially your eyes or your skin, it makes it become sore: · The pollen irritated my eyes, which were red and streaming with tears.· Nineteen percent of women will still use a beauty product, even if it irritates their skin. ► agonizing/excruciating if pain or a particular movement is agonizing or excruciating , it is extremely strong so that you are almost unable to move or do something: · The pain moved to my elbow, and it became agonizing to even lift my arm.· The excruciating pain in his kidneys made him gasp. ► be agony especially British, informal if something you do or something someone does to you is agony , it hurts a lot: · It was agony having my tooth removed - I don't think the dentist knew what he was doing.· Climbing five flights of stairs with all those bags was absolute bloody agony. 1extremely painful:  The pain was agonizing.2very unpleasant to experience, especially because of involving a difficult choice or a long wait:  an agonizing decision—agonizingly adverb:  at an agonizingly slow pace
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