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EXCRUCIATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does excruciating mean?
• EXCRUCIATING (adjective)
The adjective EXCRUCIATING has 1 sense:
1. extremely painful
Familiarity information: EXCRUCIATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely painful
Synonyms:
agonising; agonizing; excruciating; harrowing; torturesome; torturing; torturous
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
Context examples
Why, you have saved my life!—snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death! and you walk past me as if we were mutual strangers!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The speed with which I ran from the galley caused excruciating pain in my knee, and I sank down helplessly at the break of the poop.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The idea of their frightening her, and making her cry, and of my not being there to comfort her, was so excruciating, that it impelled me to write a wild letter to Mr. Spenlow, beseeching him not to visit upon her the consequences of my awful destiny.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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