Preposition: of

• 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.

• 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.