excruciating

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[ UK /ɛkskɹˈuːʃɪˌe‍ɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪksˈkɹuʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely painful
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How To Use excruciating In A Sentence

  • The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • The devotees were also treated for their excruciating pain in their shoulders, neck, back, thighs, knees, calves, ankle and foot.
  • The pain keeps hitting me in waves, ranging from barely tolerable to excruciating.
  • Instead, we now have a 60 minute animated movie that tells us the story in excruciating detail, and adds a whole new series of plot twists and machinations.
  • We’re seeing this play out in excruciatingly agonizing detail with tomorrow’s appearance in Congress of General Petraeus. Scripting News for 9/9/07 « Scripting News Annex
  • One night, he experienced excruciating pain in his abdomen so intense that it radiated to his back.
  • I haven't forgotten the 'blackwash', the 'summer of 4 captains' and the excruciating Ashes defeats and dead rubber victories........now it's time for some payback. The Ashes 2010-11: Aussies beware – cricket is taking a kicking | Kevin Mitchell
  • Diverse management would happen in the natural course of things without paying excruciatingly careful attention to balance.
  • Usually he dozes off sometime around 11 P.M., only to wake when his roommates get home around 2 A.M. The days stretch out in front of him excruciatingly. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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