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excruciating
[ ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting ]
adjective
- extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: excruciating pain.
an excruciating noise;
excruciating pain.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme:
done with excruciating care.
excruciating
/ ɪ°ìˈ²õ°ì°ù³ÜËʃɪˌ±ðɪ³Ùɪŋ /
adjective
- unbearably painful; agonizing
- intense; extreme
he took excruciating pains to do it well
- informal.irritating; trying
- humorous.very bad
an excruciating pun
Derived Forms
- ±ð³æˈ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±ËŒ²¹³Ù¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð³æ·³¦°ù³Üc¾±Â·²¹³Ùi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
- ³Ü²Ôe³æ·³¦°ù³Üc¾±Â·²¹³Ùi²Ô²µ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of excruciating1
Example Sentences
It was to trigger an excruciating series of fruitless, island-wide searches and desperate appeals for help.
The prosecutor dwelled at excruciating length on Graham’s love letters to Prow.
For three days, a former trauma room nurse pleaded for a test to discover the root cause of the “excruciating†and prolonged pain suffered by her husband, a UCI Medical Center patient.
Despite increasingly unlivable conditions on Earth, the chance to suffer a variety of excruciating deaths over and over again is not something that most humans are jumping at.
The prime minister's appointment with President Donald Trump, a wildly unpredictable showman of very different political hue, could so easily have been awkward, even excruciating.
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