Words similar to agony

Example sentences for: agony

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What the agony of Jesus on the cross is to Christians, the Holocaust is to Jews.
know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
The stadium itself, and the kind of activity that took place there, were called agon , a Greek word which originally meant simply `competition,' but which has given us our word `agony.
And the Times is aware of how sadly routine such events have become, referring to the episode's "familiar agony," and reporting that "fifteen suicide bombers have struck in Israel over the last three and a half years, killing at least 140 people and wounding hundreds."
Buying shoes demands sizable chunks of time and money, and the eventual decision generates more existential agony about their looks than about their fit.