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. Muhammadu Buhari:

   I join the families and people of Zamfara State in welcoming and celebrating the release of these traumatized female students, being held in captivity is an agonizing experience not only for the victims, but also their families and all of us.

2. Iris Murdoch:

   Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton:

   There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

4. Scott Larimer:

   That was an agonizing choice they had to make, to leave a buddy behind.

5. Dan Gasby:

   Thank you to all the friends and fans who supported B. and our family during her journey, thank you to everyone for respecting our privacy during this agonizing time.