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agony
Synonyms and Antonyms of agony
- Waiting all those hours to hear the jury's verdict was pure agony.
- the agony of never knowing what happened to her dog
affliction, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe
- The announcement that the war was over unleashed a mass agony of joy.
Synonym Discussion of agony
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- the hurricane put everyone in great distress
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- the suffering of famine victims
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- the homeless live with misery every day
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- in agony over the death of their child
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