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61agony aunt — noun a) A writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical. You should write in to the agony aunt; shell sort it out for you. b) Someone who people commonly go to for advice about personal problems, often annoyingly so. Im sick of… …
62Agony — Contest; wrestling; severe struggling with pain and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It is only used in the New Testament by Luke (22:44) to describe… …
63agony — Synonyms and related words: aching heart, affliction, agonizingness, agony of mind, anguish, atrocious pain, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken heart, care, carking care, crucifixion, crushing, death agonies, death groan, death rattle,… …
64agony aunt — (or agony uncle) noun Brit. informal a person who answers letters in an agony column …
65agony — /ˈægəni / (say aguhnee) noun (plural agonies) 1. extreme pain, generally prolonged; intense suffering. 2. intense mental excitement of any kind. 3. the struggle preceding natural death: mortal agony. 4. Rare a violent struggle. –phrase 5. put (or …
66agony column — noun a newspaper column devoted to personal problems • Hypernyms: ↑column, ↑editorial, ↑newspaper column * * * noun, pl ⋯ umns [count] Brit : ↑advice column * * * ˈagony column [agony column] …
67agony aunt — noun Date: 1975 chiefly British a columnist who writes an agony column …
68agony — noun /ˈæɡəniː/ a) Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. . b) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence,… …
69agony uncle — noun The male equivalent of an agony aunt …
70agony — From the Greek for a ‘contest’, meaning the nervous feeling experienced before such a contest. It is in that sense that Jesus was in an agony in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:44) …
