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Definition of Excruciating
1. Adjective. Extremely painful.
Similar to: Painful
Derivative terms: Torture, Torture
Definition of Excruciating
1. Adjective. Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing ¹
2. Adjective. Exceedingly intense; extreme ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excruciating
1. excruciate [v] - See also: excruciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excruciating
Literary usage of Excruciating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The skulls of neolithic man sometimes bear unmistakable traces of trepanning
during life—an operation which must have been excruciating torture in times ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... simplicity about them which seem somehow to reach the common fount of laughter
and of tears. withdraw our admiration for its excruciating badness, ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"garbage, and third, with sharp-pointed, ankle-wrenching stones, which make walking
upon them perfectly excruciating. Constantinople ought to be an Eldorado ..."
4. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"An Afternoon Call.—His Appearance.—His Band plays me Home.— Their Excruciating
Performance. — They will not "move on." — My Anxiety to do ao. ..."
5. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"The pangs of the minorities are doubtless excruciating; but we welcome an eternal
minority, under the banner inscribed with our principles, rather than an ..."
6. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"... of willingness as opposed to aversion : one who is suffering under excruciating
pains gladly submits to anything which promisee relief: joyfully denotes ..."
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