Agony [noun]

If your muscles feel so tight that the gentlest prod causes agony, a heated pad can be a great ally.

Through Nadir’s journey, Joukhadar gives us a raw and powerful portrayal of his character’s agony and loneliness as he deals with living in a body that make him look female.

I once imagined the agony of illness being the greatest challenge I’d face as a doctor.

Twice, Raymond Jefferson’s service to his country left him in pain, agony and facing years of recovery.

In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

Your sacrifice shall be the agony of agonies, the death of deaths, and yet you'll find yourself unable to resist.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

Having reduced Punch to a second agony of tears Harry departed upstairs with the news that Punch was still rebellious.

How little did she realize the long drawn-out agony that was even then beginning for her sisters in that ill-fated entrenchment!

Gwynne had exclaimed, in agony, and forgetting the awful figure on the bed in his alarm at the sight of his grandfather's face.