Synonyms of the word agony


AGONYEXCRUCIATION - HURT - HURTING - PAIN - SUFFERING - TORMENT - TORTURE

agony

  • n. Violent contest or striving.
  • n. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic…
  • n. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
  • n. The last struggle of life; death struggle.

excruciation

  • n. Some excruciating pain.

hurt

  • v. (intransitive) To be painful.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  • adj. Pained.
  • n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
  • n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
  • n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • n. A husk.

hurting

  • v. present participle of hurt.
  • n. A sensation that hurts.

pain

  • n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
  • n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
  • n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
  • n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  • n. Labour; effort; pains.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
  • v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

suffering

  • adj. Experiencing pain.
  • n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
  • v. present participle of suffer.

torment

  • n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
  • n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
  • n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
  • v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

torture

  • n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
  • n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
  • n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
  • v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

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