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agonizing

 adjective
     
ag‧o‧niz‧ing also agonising British English
1 extremely painful:
The pain was agonizing.
2 very unpleasant to experience, especially because of involving a difficult choice or a long wait:
an agonizing decision
—agonizingly adverb:
at an agonizingly slow pace
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