Agonise

  

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Agonise

Definitions: Agonise

Agonise

Verb

1. Cause to agonize.

2. Suffer agony or anguish.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "agonise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)



Synonym: Agonise

Synonym: agonize (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Agonise

"Agonise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Agonise" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)87.5%7133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)12.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%8N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Agonise

Language Translations for "agonise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

agonizzare (agonize, be in the throes of death), tormentare (afflict, agonize, bait, be tormented, bedevil, excruciate, harass, Harry, labour, nag, pester, pinch, plague, prey, sting, tantalise, tantalize, torment, worry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agoniseay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Agonise

Derivations

Words beginning with "agonise": agonised, agonises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Agonise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: agonies.

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Agonise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 67 6F 6E 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.    ---    -.    ..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100111 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 006F 006E 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35738180758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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