Causing huge physical or mental pain. Example: the smell was agonizing.
To undergo great mental anguish through worrying about something.
"Agonizing" means "causing agony".
It was a difficult decision that she had to agonize over for a long time.
Agon- is the latin root for agonize. Related words are agony and agonal.
To agonize over something is to deeply and constantly worry about it. An example of a sentence using the word would be: Mary knew that she would agonize over the exam for the next week.
To brood means "to contemplate with anxiety" or sometimes "worry" or "fret".To agonize means eitherTo suffer agonyTo struggle...unless we add "about" or "over" which then is a synonym to brood.
Agonize
hurt, disturb, torture, lament
The verb is agonize. She agonized over the morals of their relationship.
torture, struggle, strain, worry, afflict, distress, hurt, disturb, writhe, pain
Bob agonized over the decision whether or not to become a live donor and give his uncle one of his kidneys
1. To be a reader. 2. To 'Just do it.' Don't think about it, don't agonize, just sit down and write.
It supposedly does not according to the makers , but it is in fact a dopamine agonist . well it is a partial agonist , selective in nature. so yes may be addictive as it will agonize dopamine, althought it will not have the same activity.
The word 'lovesick' means to agonize over the loss of a love to the point of illness. This condition can cause physical as well as mental symptoms. It also can make a person act irrational and make poor decisions.