Agonize: Definition and part of speech

Agonize

  1. v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
  2. v. i. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
  3. v. i. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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