Agonise vs Agonize - What's the difference?
agonise | agonize | Alternative forms |
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
* (Alexander Pope):
To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet), chapter 3:
Agonize is a alternative form of agonise.
As verbs the difference between agonise and agonize
is that agonise is an alternative spelling of lang=en while agonize is to writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.agonize
English
Alternative forms
* 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.
