Definition of "agonies" []

• Plural form of agony. (noun)

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• "Without the public good we're all dead -- Right and Left -- as the agonies from the Spanish Inquisition to Auschwitz to the Gulag to Pol Pot to Ruanda to Darfur bear witness."
• "They'd be rolling in agonies if they were to eat them."
• "I am haunted day and night with the thought of all the women of England, Scotland, and Ireland, who must be in agonies of suspense about their nearest and dearest."