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UK
/ɛkskɹˈuːʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ɪksˈkɹuʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪksˈkɹuʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- extremely painful
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