Excruciating

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Intensely painful; agonizing.
  • adj. Very intense or extreme: wrote with excruciating precision.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
  • adj. Exceedingly intense; extreme
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Torturing; racking.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Extremely painful; torturing; tormenting.
  • Extremely precise or elaborate; extreme: as, excruciating politeness.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extremely painful
    • Equivalent
    painful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    torturing    racking   
    Verb Stem
    excruciate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agonize    unbearable    unendurable    convulsive    sicken   
     
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