Both Uses
agony
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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- Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs.†
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- He felt his head emerge; his eyes were blinded by the sunlight; his chest expanded convulsively, and with a supreme and crowning agony his lungs engulfed a great draught of air, which instantly he expelled in a shriek!†
agony = intense suffering
Definitions:
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(1)
(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)