[いしょうさんたん, ishousantan] (n) taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
agonizing \agonizing\ adj.
causing agony. Opposite to {painless}.
Syn: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Agonized}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Agonizing}.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. ?.
See {Agony}.]
1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
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To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope.
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2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
agonizing
adj 1: extremely painful [syn: {agonizing}, {agonising},
{excruciating}, {harrowing}, {torturing}, {torturous},
{torturesome}]
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