(n.) 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.
(n.) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
(n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(2) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(3) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(4) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(5) Using male and female Wistar rats, pituitary response to cardiac and respiratory failure type (CFT and RFT) sudden death caused by the intravenous administration of KC1 and SCC, respectively, was examined by analyzing variation in pituitary immunoreactive beta-endorphin (IR-beta-EP) levels determined by radioimmunoassay after death and in circulating IR-beta-EP levels during periods of agony.
(6) I was in the surgical ward at Westmorland General Hospital on Kendal Green, and it was agony.
(7) I'd go after work and he'd paint till 1 or 1.30 in the morning, and it was agony lying there on the floor.
(8) Evidently fuelled by the agony of losing a series twelve months ago when the trophy was almost within their grasp, they also had the teamwork, technique and experience to turn their quest for revenge into a reality.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even those who’ve never seen a downhill ski race couldn’t help but sympathise with Bode Miller’s agony at missing out on a medal in what will surely be the last Olympic event of his career.
(10) "When the disaster was big enough," King writes, "agony and violent death had an enriching quality."
(11) Even at UCH, when no one was there for us and my father, having not slept for almost 30 hours, was pulling his hair out in agony, I tried to look at it all as a kind of comedy of errors."
(12) They were subject, of course, to the prison censor, but the agony over Winnie, and the passion of which that agony was a product, blazes through them.
(13) That he ended up in the dock in The Hague at all surprised many who have studied the man and his country's agony through the 1990s.
(14) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(15) He notes the uneven agony - 80% will land in developing countries.
(16) The poor animals are thrown back into the water to die in agony, a practice condemned by environmental campaigners.
(17) The rest was pure agony for the Australians, give or take a yellow card for Sonny Bill Williams, given for a dangerous tackle.
(18) The woman before you in agony pushing and pushing, losing all dignity, does not care one bit whether I am feeling alarmed at her screaming, worried about where I should be standing, wondering whether I should rub her back or try and make small talk between contractions.
(19) Litvinenko sipped “three or four times” from a cup of radioactive tea, and died in agony 23 days later, the inquiry heard last week.
(20) Our most excruciating agony is of not being noticed in the world.
Atony
Definition:
(n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common cause of hemorrhage is uterine atony.
(2) Initial endoscopic examination showed moderate caustic esophagitis in all patients, and esophageal atony and poor distension were early roentgenographic observations.
(3) There is no evidence that distension, of the type used here, ever gives rise to "stretching" or "atony" of the bladder: and it is questionable whether distension of a lesser degree, such as may be found in acute urinary retention, ever does so either.
(4) Abnormal duodenal peristalsis with atony may follow vagotomy, pyloroplasty, gastroduodenostomy or excisional duodenal biopsy and may thus result in functional obstruction.
(5) The nine patients receiving the placebo were unable to retain any oral feedings and were then given oral metoclopramide which promptly relieved gastric atony.
(6) Postpartum atony with haemorrhage is a life-threatening condition which may necessitate surgical intervention with ligation of the ascending arterial branches or hysterectomy.
(7) The radiologic signs of diabetic gastric neuropathy consist of ineffectual peristalsis, solid gastric residue, elongated sausage-shaped stomach, gastric barium retention, and duodenal bulb atony.
(8) Excessive bleeding after delivery may result from uterine atony, disruption of the genital tract, placental abnormalities, coagulation disorders and miscellaneous obstetric complications.
(9) The commonest complications of surgical procedure, were related with the urinary tract: atony bladder observed in 27.6% of patients, vesico-vaginal fistulas in 7.8% and uretero-vaginal fistulas, in 5.5%.
(10) Physical examination findings were signs of depression, dehydration, cachexia, bradycardia, bilateral nonresponsive mydriasis, prolapse of both nictitating membranes, dry oral and nasal mucous membranes, and urinary bladder atony.
(11) Pathogenesis of acute gastric atony in the deprived child is related to structural and functional changes in the stomach due to chronic starvation, and the acute ingestion of a large meal.
(12) The gastric atony associated with diabetic coma has to be differentiated from the condition under discussion.
(13) The indications for hysterectomy were placental disorder (60.0%), uterine atony (26.7%), and uterine rupture (13.3%).
(14) The earliest toxic signs were muscle tremors, tachycardia and rumen atony.
(15) caused persistent deficits characterized by motor and sensory impairments in hindlimbs and tail, hindlimb edema, priapism, bladder atony with infarction, and urinary incontinence.
(16) The most frequent indication for caesarean section followed hysterectomy was placenta praevia (28%) and the most frequent indication for hysterectomy was atony and coagulopathy (32%).
(17) The most common cause is uterine atony, and initial therapy is conservative in these patients.
(18) Changes in autonomic function, particularly orthostatic hypotension and bladder atony, are likely causes of disability in the postoperative period.
(19) Despite normal urological anatomy, each patient had a bladder rupture that we attributed to atony of the bladder coupled with the Credé maneuver, which produced high intravesical pressures.
(20) Seven patients with a rare syndrome of diabetes insipidus (DI), diabetes mellitus (DM), optic atrophy (OA), neurosensory deafness (D), atony of the urinary tract, and other abnormalities (Wolfram or DIDMOAD syndrome) are reported.