"agony" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Englisch]

IPA: æɡənɪ, ˈæɡəniː Audio: En-us-agony.ogg Forms: the agony [singular], the agonies [plural]
  1. Qual
    Sense id: de-agony-en-noun-ArV~TwnQ
  2. Todeskampf
    Sense id: de-agony-en-noun-0GdupTLj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anguish, pang, torture, torment, distress, rack, throe, severe pain, extreme suffering Derived forms: agonizing, agony of grief, agony of tears Translations (Qual): Qual (Deutsch), agonie [feminine] (Französisch) Translations (Todeskampf): Todeskampf (Deutsch)

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "Mrs. Jameson (Anna), Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake; The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art: with that of His types; St. John the Baptist; and other persons of the Old and New Testament, Band 2; 1865",
          "text": "\"Judas was gone on his errand, and there remained but brief space for that approaching agony of mind and body, only possible to be produced by the combined divine capacity and human extremity of anguish.\""
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          "ref": "George RIPLEY, Charles Anderson Dana; The new American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge, Band 1; 1858",
          "text": "\"The agony of Christ upon the cross, dying a slow death from rabid violence among the Jews, and barbarous wounds inflicted by the Roman soldiers, to drain away the blood of life, and torture all the nerves of sense, and all the feelings of the soul within the body, is the highest illustration of the meaning of the word;…The phenomena of agony vary with the diversity of causes which result in death. In some cases, a complete prostration, and apparent calm precede the final separation of soul and body; in others, an apparent struggle sets in between all the forces of the physical and spiritual life, and violent agitation continues for a time, until it terminates in death.\""
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      "word": "torment"
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    {
      "word": "distress"
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    {
      "word": "rack"
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    {
      "word": "throe"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "agony of tears"
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    },
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          "ref": "Mrs. Jameson (Anna), Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake; The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art: with that of His types; St. John the Baptist; and other persons of the Old and New Testament, Band 2; 1865",
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        }
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        {
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        }
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    {
      "word": "pang"
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      "word": "torture"
    },
    {
      "word": "torment"
    },
    {
      "word": "distress"
    },
    {
      "word": "rack"
    },
    {
      "word": "throe"
    },
    {
      "word": "severe pain"
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      "sense": "Qual",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "Qual"
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