Agony
Agony noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.
Usage example: waiting all those hours to hear if he'd survived the plane crash was pure agony
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Agony Beam: Wilhelm whips this out within seconds of Shion telling him to go to hell.
Source: Video Game / Xenosaga -
Averted in The Divine Comedy where Latin chanting is (usually) a good sign and a contrast to the wailing screams of agony heard in hell.
Source: Ominous Latin Chanting - Weiler is doing anything other than letting the terrorist bastard suffer in agony and respecting the hell out of him for his personal integrity.
Source: Literature / Rainbow Six
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Hell and Agony. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/agony/hell
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