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adjective
- 1. intensely painful: "excruciating back pain"
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extremely boring or embarrassing: excruciating boredom. His confession, when it came, was excruciating. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of excruciating from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) excruciating | American Dictionary.
The meaning of EXCRUCIATING is causing great pain or anguish : agonizing. How to use excruciating in a sentence.
Excruciating definition: extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing. See examples of EXCRUCIATING used in a sentence.
If you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally.
Something that’s really intense or painful is excruciating. If you go skiing and break your leg in several places, the ride from the slope to the hospital will be excruciating — unless you're unconscious, too.
Excruciating can describe feelings, treatments or death but not parts of the body: an excruciating throat/ back/ knee. burning painful and giving a feeling of being very hot: She felt a burning sensation in her throat.
adj. 1. unbearably painful; agonizing. 2. intense; extreme: he took excruciating pains to do it well. 3. informal irritating; trying. 4. jocular very bad: an excruciating pun. exˈcruciˌatingly adv.
If you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally.
excruciating. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Illness & disability ex‧cru‧ci‧at‧ing /ɪkˈskruːʃieɪtɪŋ/ adjective 1 extremely painful SYN painful When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating. 2 if something is excruciating, it is extremely unpleasant, for example because it is boring or embarrassing ...
Excruciate definition: to inflict severe pain upon; torture. See examples of EXCRUCIATE used in a sentence.
