Both Uses
agony
in
Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but mass agony and silence.†
p. 89.3agony = intense suffering
- I was riveted to my father's agony.†
p. 109.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)