The word "agonising" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a difficult situation or a painful experience. Example: He had to go through an agonising ordeal before he was able to make it out alive.
Ministers, who are known to have been agonising over the benefits proposals, may have decided that would have been a provocation too far.
Watching her dip her head and gaze adoringly at Sugar was agonising.
If ever a match would sum up just how thrilling and agonising the play-offs can be, then the second leg between Sunderland and Gillingham was as good an example as any.
The country has been agonising for days over a dilemma that balances the need to keep a key ally happy against the risks of getting embroiled in a fight that could exacerbate sectarian strains in Pakistan and distract from the country's fight against its own militant groups.
To the Saudis' east lie the glittering oil statelets of the Gulf (GDP per head in Qatar: $16,500) which spent many years agonising about the danger from "radical" Iraq and now agonise about the prospect of Iraq losing the war against even more radical Iran.
Deciding which prisoners deserved death had proved "agonising" and had changed his view of capital punishment, he explained.
From the mid-1960s he was periodically sucked in to sit on government commissions agonising over the crime rate, because no one else asked questions about it in the fresh-eyed way that he did.The approach he took was empirical and practical.
When he's not eking out a modest living as a translator, he's perambulating Copenhagen's streets, musing on James Joyce and Dante, fretting about his ex-wife and kids, and agonising over questions big and small: What is love?
But now that people are living longer and frequently dying slowly, usually in hospital and often alone, from lingering and agonising diseases such as cancer the debate has taken on a new urgency.Related topics Social issues Death and Dying Colombia Netherlands OregonIt is still deeply divisive.
This consisted of western politicians, dons and journalists agonising about whether Yugoslavs were killing each other because they were historically prone to bouts of blood-letting or because their present leaders were evil.
Another was a Conservative manifesto that has no historical equivalent in its devotion to a single, dominating theme (that of empowering society at the expense of the state, an idea voters agonising over jobs and wages have found esoteric).
