'V over n' - Construction 5

Name: the agonise over construction
Description: A person experiences indecision in relation to a topic.
Verbs: agonise, dither, fret, puzzle, speculate, waffle, waver
Example: Pauline doesn't often agonise over decorating decisions. (BNC)
Membership: figurative 'over'; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2: Phenomenon
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