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  2. verb [ I ] us / ˈæɡ·əˌnɑɪz / Add to word list. to spend a lot of time trying to make a decision: She agonized for days over whether she should take the job. agonizing. adjective us / ˈæɡ·əˌnɑɪ·zɪŋ / After hours of agonizing debate, the membership rejected the proposal.

  3. 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. American English : agonize / ˈægənaɪz /

  4. The meaning of AGONIZE is to cause to suffer agony : torture. How to use agonize in a sentence.

  5. Agonize definition: to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony. . See examples of AGONIZE used in a sentence.

  6. When you worry excessively about something, you agonize about it. The mother of a teenage boy might agonize over his safety when he first learns to drive. Agonize can mean to suffer true pain, but it's generally a mental type of anguish.

  7. verb [ I ] us / ˈæɡ·əˌnɑɪz / Add to word list. to spend a lot of time trying to make a decision: She agonized for days over whether she should take the job. agonizing. adjective us / ˈæɡ·əˌnɑɪ·zɪŋ / After hours of agonizing debate, the membership rejected the proposal.

  8. v.intr. 1. To suffer mental anguish or worry about something: agonized over the difficult decision. 2. To suffer extreme pain: The explorers agonized in the hot sun. v.tr. To cause great pain or anguish to. See Synonyms at afflict. [Medieval Latin agōnizāre, from Greek agōnizesthai, to struggle, from agōn, contest; see agony .] ag′o·niz′ing·ly adv.

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