agonize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AG'ONIZE, verb transitive [Gr. to strive. See Agony.] To write with extreme pain; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. AG'ONIZE, verb transitive To distress with extreme pain; to torture.
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