1 extreme physical or mental pain or suffering, or a period of such suffering: --
[ U ] They put her on painkillers, but they didn’t do enough, and she was in agony.
Yet here we are deliberately causing slight suffering to an innocent individual in order to save a child from agony.
They strove not to eradicate body but to merge their own humiliating and painful flesh with that flesh whose agony, espoused by choice, was salvation.
We may grant the elegance of nature, or even at times its beauty, but its agonies are hard to think away.
First, it is impossible to be in complete physical agony while experiencing complete bliss.
For young people such agonies are typically large scale and dramatic, involving decisions about careers and life partners.
This fear is the real cause of her agony over lying to the police.
The generalized increase in the use of opioids, on reaching the moment of agony, in all types of care, has been pointed out previously (12).
Not all species or ecosystems are equally valuable and this requires facing the "agony of choice".
