agony

Preposition: of

• indecision: In the present moment all those agonies of indecision are just more thoughts among all the others.
• suspense: Who shall say what hope, what agony of suspense, fills her troubled mind?
• grief: The death of his son threw the poor man into an agony of grief, which sometimes reappears on the surface.
• despair: While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I happened to look up.
• defeat: Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
• death: Adam and Noah wept day and night due to the agony of death.

Converse of object

• prolong: Arguably, it has actually made the killing worse by prolonging the agony.
• endure: His father, who suffered a stroke in 1961 which rendered him speechless, endured the agony in silence.
• suffer: Don't let them suffer the agony of the lost.
• inflict: Anya, here, would take great pleasure in inflicting great agony on you, for me.

Adjective modifier

• excruciating: It can vary from mild discomfort to excruciating agony.
• indescribable: But his head was quite loose, as if it would fall off, and his face wore an expression of indescribable agony.
• exquisite: Readers who notice a certain detachment from the rather exquisite agonies of textual bibliographers will now know why.
• absolute: I was in absolute agony for about 6 hours.
• sheer: That is going to put me through sheer agony.
• terrible: Every newspaper and every news bulletin for the last two weeks has reminded us that there is a terrible agony in the world.

Modifies a noun

• aunt: They can also email agony aunt, Sam, for direct advice.
• uncle: There's even an agony uncle to respond to your problems.
• column: Ed SMALL PRINT Has YS ever thought of having an agony aunt column?

Noun used with modifier

death: The death agony of the coalition ministry began on the day of its birth.