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- Dictionaryexcruciating/ɪkˈskruːʃɪeɪtɪŋ/
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.
If you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally.
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.
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.
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 definition: extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing. See examples of EXCRUCIATING used in a sentence.
1. If you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally. [emphasis] [...] 2. If you describe something as excruciating, you mean that it is very unpleasant to experience, for example because it is very boring or embarrassing. [...] More. Synonyms of 'excruciating'
Intensely painful; agonizing. American Heritage. Causing intense physical or mental pain; agonizing. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Intense or extreme. With excruciating attention to detail. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: torturing. agonising. torturous. harrowing. agonizing. torturesome. shooting. severe. grueling.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the adjective excruciating mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective excruciating. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status.
