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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. Related word. excruciatingly. (Definition of excruciating from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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.
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.
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.
to cause mental anguish to; irritate greatly. excruciate. / ɪkˈskruːʃɪˌeɪt / verb. to inflict mental suffering on; torment. obsolete. to inflict physical pain on; torture.
Synonyms for EXCRUCIATING: wrenching, torturous, agonizing, intense, torturing, harrowing, raging, extreme; Antonyms of EXCRUCIATING: easy, light, soft, comfortable, pleasant, luxurious, agreeable, friendly
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excruciating: Intensely painful; agonizing.
