AGONIES

Definition: AGONIES

AGONIES

Plural

1. Of Agony

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "AGONIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: AGONIES

English words defined with "AGONIES": agonal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "AGONIES": sorcery ♦ TANTALUS. (references)

Etymologies containing "AGONIES": Agony. (references)

Non-English Usage: "AGONIES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (insulted).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Agonies of Agnes (1918)
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Domain	Title
Books	Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Performative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition (reference) Calcutta's Urban Future: Agonies from the Past and Prospects for the Future (reference) Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 2) (reference) Dear Captain, et al. : The Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory, a Memoir from World War II (reference) New civil-military relations; the agonies of adjustment to post-Vietnam realities (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
William C. Bryant	Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.
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"AGONIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AGONIES" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	86	35,638

Expressions using "AGONIES": be in agonies ♦ dying agonies ♦ go through agonies. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "AGONIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		极度痛苦 (Agony). (various references)

German		Qualen (dolors, misery, pain, pains, throes, torments). (various references)

Hungarian		pokolian szenved (to suffer agonies). (various references)

Korean		� 통 (Affliction, Afflictions, Agony, Pain, Pains). (various references)

Pig Latin		agoniesay

Spanish		agonizar (agonize, go through agonies), sufrir atrozmente (be in agonies). (various references)

Ukranian		бути в агонії (agonize, be in agonies). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"AGONIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abonae, adonises, aegolius, aeonius, agaonids, agenes, agnosias, agoines, agone, agonia, agonie, agonine, agonises, agonism, agonite, agonius, Agorius, Asonides, Avoniel, gabonaise, goonies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "AGONIES" (pronounced a"gunēz)
4	-u n ē z	aborigines, accompanies, balconies, colonies, companies, destinies, felonies, harmonies, ironies, litanies, mutinies, peonies, symphonies, tyrannies.
3	-n ē z	afghanis, attorneys, bikinis, brownies, bunnies, ceremonies, chimneys, crannies, cronies, guineas, Honeys, journeys, kidneys, martinis, minis, moneys, monies, nannies, pennies, ponies, testimonies, tourneys.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: agonise.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: agones, easing, genoas, soigne.
	-2 letters: aegis, aeons, agios, agone, agons, anise, eosin, gains, genoa, gonia, noise, segni, segno, sengi, singe.
	-3 letters: aeon, ages, agin, agio, agon, ains, anes, anis, egis, egos, engs, eons, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gens, gien, gies, gins, goas, goes, gone, ions, nags, naoi, naos, noes, nogs, nose, ones, sage, sago, sain, sane, sang, sego, sign, sine, sing, snag, snog, sone, song.
	-4 letters: age, ago, ain, ais, ane, ani, ego, eng, ens, eon, gae, gan, gas, gen, gie, gin, goa, gos, ins, ion, nae, nag, nog, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei, sen, sin, son.
	-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, as, en, es, go, in, is, na, ne, no, oe, on, os, si, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: agonised, agonises, agonizes, anginose, begonias, coinages, diagnose, gasoline, organise, seagoing.
	+2 letters: agonistes, alongside, amidogens, anagogies, analogies, cousinage, diagnosed, diagnoses, easygoing, egomanias, espionage, gasolines, gelations, geraniols, gestation, grandiose, guanosine, ibogaines, legations, negations, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organizes, reasoning, regionals, resoaking, sapogenin, seasoning, sloganize.
	+3 letters: abiogenist, aborigines, aggression, agrimonies, agronomies, analogizes, angiosperm, antilogies, aragonites, autogenies, autosexing, coagencies, coalescing, coarsening, collegians, cousinages, designator, desolating, egomaniacs, endogamies, escaloping, espionages, flamingoes, garrisoned, gelatinous, gemmations, geomancies, gestations, girandoles, gormandise, gramineous, guanosines, hoarsening, ignorances, isoantigen, jargonizes, mahoganies, monogamies, morganites, negotiants, negotiates, neuroglias, oleaginous, omniranges, opalescing, orangeries, organisers, organizers, organzines, originates, oversaving, poignances, presoaking, rearousing, reasonings, recoinages, resonating, rosemaling, sapogenins, saprogenic, seasonings, seignorage, seignorial, sloganized, sloganizes, xenogamies.
	+4 letters: abiogeneses, abiogenesis, abiogenists, abnegations, afforesting, aggressions, allegations, anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angiosperms, angiotensin, anisogamies, antagonizes, anthologies, beshadowing, carcinogens, cinemagoers, coattesting, cognizances, consanguine, consignable, degustation, delegations, denegations, denigrators, derogations, designation, designators, designatory, diagnosable, disorganize, dragonflies, elongations, emigrations, ergotamines, escalloping, forecasting, foretasting, forswearing, gadolinites, ganglioside, geminations, genealogies, genealogist, generations, geobotanies, geobotanist, gestational, glauconites, gleizations, glucokinase, glucosamine, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, grandiosely, hemangiomas, homemakings, iceboatings, ignoramuses, integrators, invigorates, isoantigens, langoustine, legionaries, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, logicalness, lovemakings, lowercasing, magnificoes, meningiomas, misdiagnose, monophagies, negotiators, nitrogenase, noisemaking, nonearnings, nonspeaking, operagoings, outfeasting, outspeaking, outswearing, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, personating, plasminogen, poignancies, postweaning, reabsorbing, reassorting, regionalism, regionalist, regulations, relegations, reorganizes, reseasoning, resignation, rosemalings, sanguineous, segregation, seigniorage, seignorages, semaphoring, signatories, spermagonia, subpoenaing, subregional, theologians, undiagnosed, unreasoning, vainglories, vegetations, warehousing, wholesaling, zabagliones.
	+5 letters: accessioning, aerosolizing, aggregations, allegorising, alloantigens, amblygonites, androgenesis, angelologies, angelologist, angiogeneses, angiogenesis, angiotensins, anthologizes, antiestrogen, balneologies, categorising, centimorgans, cladogenesis, compensating, concubinages, congelations, consecrating, convalescing, craniologies, cyanogenesis, degradations, degustations, denigrations, designations, desolatingly, diagnoseable, diagonalizes, digressional, disorganized, disorganizes, earthmovings, encompassing, evaginations, expurgations, fingerboards, forespeaking, forestalling, foreswearing, gallinaceous, gangliosides, gastrocnemii, gastronomies, gelatinously, genealogists, geobotanists, geomagnetism, geosynclinal, germinations, glucokinases, glucosamines, glutathiones, goaltendings, gormandizers, gourmandises, gourmandizes, graciousness, gynecomastia, homesteading, housewarming, ignorantness, impregnators, integrations, interrobangs, interrogates, investigator, isoantigenic, jeopardising, langoustines, legionnaires, legislations, loganberries, manifestoing, megalomanias, menorrhagias, micromanages, mineralogies, mineralogist, misdiagnosed, misdiagnoses, moneymakings, moviemakings, negotiations, negrophobias, nematologies, nematologist, nitrogenases, noisemakings, nomographies, nonstrategic, oceanologies, oceanologist, oleaginously, organicities, organologies, outorganizes, outspreading, overcastings, overpraising, oversanguine, overstaffing, oxygenations, packinghouse, paedogenesis, palynologies, pathogenesis, pelargoniums, plasminogens, refashioning, regionalisms, regionalists, regionalizes, registration, remigrations, renegotiates, renographies, reorganizers, resignations, ropedancings, scapegoating, scenographic, segmentation, segregations, seigniorages, seronegative, slaveholding, sloganeering, sonographies, speedboating, spermagonium, steamrolling, stenographic, stonewalling, superorganic, uncoalescing, urbanologies, variegations, venographies, witenagemots.
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