Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the pain of death
WordNet
adj. pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies)
Wikipedia
Agonal and agonist may refer to:
- Death rattle, deriving from the word agony
- Agonal heart rhythm, abnormal heart rhythm
- Agonal respiration, abnormal breathing pattern
- Agonist, the opposite of antagonist
Usage examples of "agonal".
The lights are switched off in the living room, the fire in its agonal stages of going out.
Fall was gone, its last agonal bits of color driven from the naked tree limbs by the rain.
Dr Lector's normally white face flushes as he creates for the Studiolo the gargling, choking words of the agonal Pier della Vigna, and as he thumbs his remote control, the images of della Vigna and Judas with his bowels out alternate on the large field of the hanging drop cloth.
Dr Lector's normally white face flushes as he creates for the Studiolo the gargling, choking words of the agonal Pier delta Vigna, and as he thumbs his remote control, the images of delta Vigna and Judas with his bowels out alternate on the large field of the hanging drop cloth.
Sondra moved out of the trailer in Durham, out from beneath the agonal gaze of the dying savior, and into an apartment in Lisbon Falls.