What is to cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray called?
agonize — To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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