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AGONY

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agony substantiv

1. agonie; suferinţă mare, durere cumplită, chin;

agony of death, mortal agony agonie, chinurile morţii;

agony of tears şiroaie de lacrimi;

(sl.) to pile on the agony a exagera; a căuta efecte senzaţionale;

(glumeţ) agony in red costum de culoare roşie ţipătoare;

to be in an agony of despair a fi în culmea deznădejdii.

2. (fig.) agonie, chin.

3. (rar) luptă pe viaţă şi pe moarte.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I thought of the agonies I had gone through in coming from the hotel.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had thrown myself beside her in an agony of helpless grief, and putting my arms around held her tight.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse?

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Need I go further where every word is an agony?”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, at last, as I need not tell you, you were forced on me; and what a sweet figure I cut!—what an evening of agony it was!

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He yielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I am half agony, half hope.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Oh, I have no respect for myself when I think of that act!—an agony of inward contempt masters me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When my thoughts go back, now, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of the histories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy over well-remembered facts!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Elizabeth was in agonies.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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