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excruciating

[ ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting ]

adjective

  1. extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: excruciating pain.

    an excruciating noise;

    excruciating pain.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

  2. exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme:

    done with excruciating care.



excruciating

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adjective

  1. unbearably painful; agonizing
  2. intense; extreme

    he took excruciating pains to do it well

  3. informal.
    irritating; trying
  4. humorous.
    very bad

    an excruciating pun

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Derived Forms

  • ±ð³æˈ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±ËŒ²¹³Ù¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ð³æ·³¦°ù³Üc¾±Â·²¹³Ùi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ôe³æ·³¦°ù³Üc¾±Â·²¹³Ùi²Ô²µ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of excruciating1

First recorded in 1655–65; excruciat(e) + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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It was to trigger an excruciating series of fruitless, island-wide searches and desperate appeals for help.

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The prosecutor dwelled at excruciating length on Graham’s love letters to Prow.

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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.

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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.

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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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