Synonyms for agonizing
ag·o·niz·ing

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1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, torturing, excruciating, agonising, torturesome, torturous

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. List of paraphrases for "agonizing":

   painful, distressing, nagging, harrowing

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1. Grabien Media founder Tom Elliott:

   If CNN’s collapsing ratings weren’t enough to elicit an agonizing reappraisal of their entire situation, the planned rollout of CNN+ surely is.

2. Valeria Ponomarova:

   I turned and just fell on my knees and I just screamed with the most agonizing cry, i didn’t know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy.

3. David Lubarsky:

   I believe the pain from the potassium chloride and the slow suffocation would be nothing short of agonizing.

4. Mary Todd Lincoln:

   In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

5. Barbara King:

   There was one gorilla whose long-term mate and friend died in the zoo, and he first tried to revive her, even bringing her favorite food to her and putting it in her hand and poking her, and then at some point he seemed to come to a really stunning realization that his friend was not going to move. I don’t know if that’s a concept of death, but his behavior changed and he let out a very agonizing wail and stopped trying to revive her. Clearly something cognitive and emotional happened to him at that moment.