Usually means: Intense pain of mind or body.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word agony:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. agony: Merriam-Webster
  2. agony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. agony: Vocabulary.com
  6. Agony, agony: Wordnik
  7. agony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. agony: Wiktionary
  9. agony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. agony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. agony: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Agony, agony: Dictionary.com
  13. agony: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. agony: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Agony (Fleshgod Apocalypse album), Agony (Oppressor album), Agony (TV series), Agony (band), Agony (comics), Agony (film), Agony (television), Agony (video game), Agony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Agony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. agony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. agony: Rhymezone
  19. agony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. agony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. agony: FreeDictionary.org
  22. agony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. agony: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. agony: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. agony: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. agony: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agony (disambiguation), agony: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. agony: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. agony: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Agony (disambiguation), agony: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. agony: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agony: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. agony: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Agony: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See agonies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Extreme pain.
noun:  (biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
noun:  Violent contest or striving.
noun:  Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
noun:  The last struggle of life; death struggle.

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