Adonize vs Agonize - What's the difference?
adonize | agonize |
To make something or someone (especially a man) more beautiful
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
* (Alexander Pope):
To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet), chapter 3:
As verbs the difference between adonize and agonize
is that adonize is to make something or someone (especially a man) more beautiful while agonize is to writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.adonize
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*agonize
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* agoniseVerb
(agoniz)- To smart and agonize at every pore.
- So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat.