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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agony inducing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes extreme pain or distress, either physically or emotionally.
Example: "The movie was so intense and heart-wrenching that it felt almost agony inducing."
Alternatives: "painful" or "torturous".
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Mind-bending drugs and agony-inducing poisons can be made from ingredients that, under American law, can be labeled "all natural food supplement".
The "range anxiety" that afflicts other electric-car owners has been minimised in the Model S by packing it with lots of batteries; the agony-inducing cost of filling up at the petrol station need never bother Ms James again.Other all-electric cars, costly and with limited ranges, have proved a hard sell.
My son clutches his head and falls to the floor in sports induced agony.
Even soft furnishings can induce mental agony.
Patients are administered an anesthetic and a muscle relaxant prior to ECT so they don't writhe in agony as seizures are induced.
The ostensible purpose of mistreating prisoners is to inflict pain and induce disorientation and despair, creating so much agony that the prisoners give up valuable intelligence in order to end the suffering.
But Hipmunk's interface is significantly less headache-inducing than many of its competitors — and it includes its trademark 'sort by agony' feature, which lets you rule out any flights that would be particularly painful (say, that red-eye with two stops).
She rises to the surface and induces a blister on her victim's skin that is so fierce, and of such searing agony, that the afflicted seek relief in the coolness of water.
The agony.
Agony face.
Oh, agony.
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