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Definition
intense feelings of suffering — can be from mental or physical pain
- This time she bit her lip and did not scream out in her agony.Chapter 10 (60% in)
- Oh, God!" he repeated to himself in almost unendurable agony.Chapter 3 (76% in)
- She found to her agony, that the doctor was still there, poised needle and all.Chapter 18 (39% in)
- A man thinks of the pain and agony that came to her out of their being together and then it isn't good anymore to him.Chapter 40 (22% in)
There are no more uses of "agony" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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