PILE ON THE AGONY / GLOOM

Meaning of PILE ON THE AGONY / GLOOM in English

( informal , especially BrE ) to make an unpleasant situation worse :

Bosses piled on the agony with threats of more job losses.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AGONY — torment(es), agonie
English interlingue dictionary
AGONY — panghingutas
English-Visayan vocabulary
AGONY — noun (plural -nies) see: agent Date: 14th century 1. intense pain of mind or body ; anguish , torture , …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PILE — I. ˈpīl, esp before pause or consonant -īəl noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, dart, pointed shaft, stake, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ON — I. (|)ȯn, (|)än, in the southeastern US sometimes (|)ōn preposition Etymology: Middle English, preposition & adverb, fr Old English an, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GLOOM — I. ˈglüm verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English gloumen, gloumben; akin to Middle High German be glūmen to make …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
AGONY — ˈagənē, ˈaig-, -ni noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English agonie, from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French agonie, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GLOOM — (v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Английский словарь Webster
GLOOM — (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
Английский словарь Webster
GLOOM — ( v. t. ) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GLOOM — ( n. ) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PILE — pile 1 /puyl/ , n. , v. , piled, piling . n. 1. an assemblage of things laid or lying …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GLOOM — — gloomful , adj. — gloomfully , adv. — gloomless , adj. /gloohm/ , n. 1. total or partial darkness; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
AGONY — /ag"euh nee/ , n. , pl. agonies . 1. extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering. 2. …
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GLOOM — I. ˈglüm verb Etymology: Middle English gloumen Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. : to look, feel, or act sullen …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PILE — noun a funeral pile; a pyre. 2. pile ·noun a covering of hair or fur. 3. pile ·noun ·same·as fagot, …
Webster English vocab
GLOOM — noun a shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. 2. gloom ·noun in gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. 3. gloom …
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AGONY — noun violent contest or striving. 2. agony ·noun paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. 3. agony ·noun the last struggle of …
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PILE — [pile] n [ME, dart, stake, fr. OE pil, fr. L pilum javelin] (12c) 1: a long slender column usu. of …
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GLOOM — [gloom] vb [ME gloumen] vi (14c) 1: to look, feel, or act sullen or despondent 2: to be or become …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PILE — in textiles, the surface of a cloth composed of an infinite number of loops of warp threads, or else of …
Britannica English vocabulary
GLOOM — gloom BrE AmE ɡluːm
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
AGONY — agon|y BrE AmE ˈæɡ ə n |i ▷ agon|ies iz ▶ ˈ agony aunt BrE AmE ▶ ˈ ˈ agony …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PILE — / paɪl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun —see also piles 1. [ C ] a number of things …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GLOOM — / gluːm; NAmE / noun 1. [ U , sing. ] a feeling of being sad and without hope SYN …
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AGONY — / ˈægəni; NAmE / noun ( pl. -ies ) [ U , C ] extreme physical or mental pain : …
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ON — I. on 1 S1 W1 /ɒn $ ɑːn, ɒːn/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ] 1 . ON …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GLOOM — gloom /ɡluːm/ BrE AmE noun [singular, uncountable] 1 . literary almost complete darkness: He peered into the gathering (=increasing) gloom. …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AGONY — ag ‧ o ‧ ny /ˈæɡəni/ BrE AmE noun ( plural agonies ) [uncountable and countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PILE — n. & v. --n. 1 a heap of things laid or gathered upon one another (a pile of leaves). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GLOOM — n. & v. --n. 1 darkness; obscurity. 2 melancholy; despondency. 3 poet. a dark place. --v. 1 intr. be gloomy …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
AGONY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 extreme mental or physical suffering. 2 a severe struggle. øagony aunt colloq. a person (esp. a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PILE — n. & v. n. 1 a heap of things laid or gathered upon one another (a pile of leaves). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GLOOM — n. & v. n. 1 darkness; obscurity. 2 melancholy; despondency. 3 poet. a dark place. v. 1 intr. be gloomy …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
AGONY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 extreme mental or physical suffering. 2 a severe struggle. agony aunt colloq. a person (esp. a …
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PILE — 1. n. & v. --n. 1. a heap of things laid or gathered upon one another (a pile of leaves). …
Oxford English vocab
GLOOM — n. & v. --n. 1. darkness; obscurity. 2 melancholy; despondency. 3 poet. a dark place. --v. 1. intr. be gloomy …
Oxford English vocab
AGONY — n. (pl. -ies) 1. extreme mental or physical suffering. 2 a severe struggle. Phrases and idioms: agony aunt colloq. a …
Oxford English vocab
PILE
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ON — The preposition is pronounced /ɒn/. The adverb and the adjective are pronounced /ɒn/. Frequency: The word is one of the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GLOOM — 1. The gloom is a state of near darkness. ...the gloom of a foggy November morning... I was peering about …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AGONY — Agony is great physical or mental pain. She called out in agony... = torment N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GLOOM — 1. The ~ is a state of near darkness. ...the ~ of a foggy November morning... I was peering about …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
AGONY — Agony is great physical or mental pain. She called out in ~... = torment N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GLOOM — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES doom and gloom/gloom and doom (= bad things that may happen in the future ) …
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AGONY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GLOOM — (DARKNESS) [noun] [U] - near darkness in which it is difficult to see wellShe peered into the gloom, but she …
Cambridge English vocab
AGONY — [noun] - (a state or feeling of) extreme physical or mental pain or sufferingThe people who had been injured in …
Cambridge English vocab
PILE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
AGONY — Synonyms and related words : aching heart, affliction, agonizingness, agony of mind, anguish, atrocious pain, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GLOOM — To turn down or otherwise dim a source of light. Example: You know the movie is about to start when …
Slang English vocab
GLOOM — noun 1 sadness ADJECTIVE ▪ deep ▪ She was in a deep ~ because not even a postcard had arrived …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
AGONY — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ excruciating , extreme , intense ▪ absolute , pure , sheer , utter ▪ exquisite ▪ mental …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GLOOM — • ↑ the gloom
Longman Activator English vocab
AGONY — See ↑ SUFFER 3 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be agony • ↑ be in agony
Longman Activator English vocab
GLOOM — n. 25B6; noun she peered into the gloom : DARKNESS, dark, dimness, blackness, murkiness, shadows, shade; dusk, twilight, gloaming. his …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PILE — n. 1 heap, mound, stack, accumulation, stockpile, mass, supply, deposit, collection, assemblage, batch, hoard, aggregation, congeries, conglomeration, assortment, agglomeration, concentration, …
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GLOOM — n. 1 shadowiness, gloominess, shade, shadow, murkiness, murk, dimness, dusk, dullness, dark, darkness, cloudiness, blackness, obscurity We arose in the …
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AGONY — n. anguish, trouble, distress, suffering, misery, wretchedness, pain, pangs, woe, torment, throes, torture, affliction For two days his parents experienced …
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AGONY — noun very severe pain; he lay in agony on the floor; she suffered agonies until her condition was diagnosed
English Dictionary of Medicine
PILE — I 1. сущ. 1) куча, груда, штабель; столбик (монет); кипа (бумаг); пакет, пачка, связка pile of stones ≈ груда камней …
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