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verb

past tense of agonize
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Recent Examples of agonized
Adjective
There’s ongoing catharsis in the powerful expression of this sometimes personally agonized material, whoever wrote all of it, as the sing-and scream-alongs would indicate. Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024 Researchers suggest that the woman may have been afflicted by a rare muscle reaction at the moment of death that immortalized her agonized expression. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024 Over several pages, Ramberg drew and inventively redrew the thoracic cavity of the agonized body in Italian crucifixions, making the depression framed by the ribcage into a positive, phallic form. Sue Taylor, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2024 Exploding cannons and agonized screams are the soundtrack of a polite society being ushered into a new, more indiscriminately brutal age, one that Nagakado meets with foolish confidence, Omi with a nefarious grin, Blackthorne with outsider confusion, and Yabushige and Mariko with informed despair. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for agonized
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agonized
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • The mournful footnote to Hollywood or Bust is that off-set, the friendship between Martin and Lewis had already broken down irrevocably.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Definitely — but there’s a mournful resonance to that in a play where characters reach out so desperately and remain so trapped within themselves.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Also Thursday, people mourned eight Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
    Josef Federman and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • And yet, 32 games later, the transaction is barely mourned and hardly mentioned.
    John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In the original visual, the Grammy winner plays a heartbroken character named Peaches who has all traces of her ex wiped from her hippocampus, an homage to Michel Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Seven Oaks parents ‘heartbroken’ Five Seven Oaks parents reached out to the Statesman to express disappointment with the removal of the bulletin board.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • For example, the same researchers at Cornell University who invented the new goggles have previously shown a reduction in blood flow in the brains of mice afflicted with the condition.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Terrified, the patient almost reflexively asked her surgeon to remove both of her breasts, even though the cancer afflicted only one side.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The funeral mass for Azcona will be held Friday at 10:30am at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • On Wednesday, Israelis lined the streets to watch the funeral procession for Bibas and her two young sons, Kfir and Ariel, who were nine-months-old and 4 years old respectively when they were taken hostage with their mother, and whose bodies were also returned and identified last week.
    Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • After jumping out to a 9-2 start this season, the Phoenix Suns have sputtered over the past month as injuries have besieged their Big Three.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The wealthiest man in the world used his social media platform X to amplify the unrest, and GOP lawmakers were besieged with phone calls to their offices telling them to oppose the plan.
    Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • What follows is Maria’s swift and anguished decline.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The anguished ending is divisive, but god if Liu doesn’t sell it.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Agonized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agonized. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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