Agonizing and Brooding

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Agonizing adjective - Hard to accept or bear especially emotionally.

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Brooding and agonizing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Brooding" instead a noun "Agonizing".

Nearby Words: agonize, agonise, agony, agonized, agonising

Brooding noun - Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.

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Agonizing and brooding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agonizing" instead a noun "Brooding".

Nearby Words: brood, broody, brooded, brooder

There is an episode where we see how agonizing it is for the evil Angelus to be trapped inside the brooding but heroic Angel - he screams in horror when forced to relive a night when Angel saved a puppy.

Source: Epiphany Therapy

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