What is "agonise"

Usage examples of "agonise".

Spanky bent forward with an agonised shout and the epidermis split further apart across his back.

He had the cord in his hand and was looking at Clare with an agonised expression.

One hand that will never again change a soaring upward flight of spreading wings, into an agonised mass of falling feathers.

Nor from that night did he once give way to whatever might be his more agonised and fierce emotions--he never affected to reproach himself--he never bewailed with a vain despair their approaching separation.

And despite what EvenSong apparently thought, SpikeFeather agonised daily over his inability to act quickly enough to save FreeFall.

He was cut off by a sudden, agonised groan from Axis, who clutched at his head.

Up and down the trench the predominant sound was of the harsh breathing of the defenders intermixed with the excited whisperings of the wraithsinterspersed occasionally with an agonised cry as a man fell victim to the hungry teeth of a Skraeling.

The SkraeBold, agonised by the wound underneath his arm and by the useless flapping of his broken wing, finally started to think a little more clearly.

She made a sound that could have come from an agonised animal before the tears spurted from her eyes, nose and mouth at the same time.

Still sitting in the twisted position, and too stunned to move, she watched Jane, who gave an almost agonised cry, fly to him and fling her arms about his neck.

Who am I, just a woman who spent eight agonising hours in labour with you.

He tried to catch sight of her feet, dreading to imagine their damaged state, knowing that every step she took must be agonising, but she was already off and away, pounding across the floor to the brassy orchestrations.

What I did know for certain was that every additional second I remained there would make the bends all the more agonising and crippling when they finally struck.

I grabbed it, held on, surfaced, sucked in some lungfuls of that cold, salt, wonderful air and waited for the decompression pains to start, those sharply agonising twinges in the Joints of the limbs.

He was sobbing as she had sometimes heard men sob after agonising operations, borne without a sound until the worst was over.