Irritate vs Agony - What's the difference?
irritate | agony |
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
Violent contest or striving.
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
The last struggle of life; death struggle.
As a verb irritate
is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.As a noun agony is
violent contest or striving.irritate
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Verb
(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleaseagony
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Noun
(agonies)- The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. —.
- Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. —Luke xxii. 44.
- With cries and agonies of wild delight. —.
