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agonious (adjective), more agonious, most agonious
1. Conveying a violent contest or striving for an objective.
2. Pain which is so extreme as to cause contortions of the body; such as, those which were made in athletic contests in Greece: Sometimes there are agonious pains of the mind and/or body that can result from a person's excessive striving to accomplish something.
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