Agony: alternatives and connections

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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of Hurt

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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of Suffer

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A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

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One who contends for the prize in public games.

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One who contends for the prize in public games.

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To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

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To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

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One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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of Suffer

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An engine for casting stones.

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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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