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  • English Word Agonize Definition To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
  • English Word Agonized Definition of Agonize
  • English Word Agonizing Definition of Agonize
  • English Word Agonizingly Definition With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
  • English Word Agonothete Definition An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
  • English Word Agonothetic Definition Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
  • English Word Agony Definition Violent contest or striving.
  • English Word Agony Definition Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
  • English Word Agony Definition Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
  • English Word Agony Definition The last struggle of life; death struggle.
  • English Word Agood Definition In earnest; heartily.
  • English Word Agora Definition An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
  • English Word Agouara Definition The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.
  • English Word Agouta Definition A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
  • English Word Agouti Definition Alt. of Agouty
  • English Word Agouty Definition A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
  • English Word Agrace Definition See Aggrace.
  • English Word Agraffe Definition A hook or clasp.
  • English Word Agraffe Definition A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.
  • English Word Agrammatist Definition A illiterate person.
  • English Word Agraphia Definition The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
  • English Word Agraphic Definition Characterized by agraphia.
  • English Word Agrappes Definition Hooks and eyes for armor, etc.
  • English Word Agrarian Definition Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
  • English Word Agrarian Definition Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
  • English Word Agrarian Definition One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
  • English Word Agrarian Definition An agrarian law.
  • English Word Agrarianism Definition An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
  • English Word Agrarianize Definition To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.
  • English Word Agre Definition Alt. of Agree