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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
excruciating
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
excruciating (=very severe)
▪ The pain in my eye was excruciating.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pain
▪ After rolling on the sand in excruciating pain until stars lit up the sky, he relieved himself for a good half-hour.
▪ An excruciating pain in her head and stabbing agony in one ankle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The ambassador opened the gift in front of all his guests - and the box was empty! It was the most excruciating moment of my life.
▪ The pain in my knee was excruciating.
▪ There followed an excruciating silence that lasted for at least a minute.
▪ Witnesses described the brutal attack in excruciating detail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After rolling on the sand in excruciating pain until stars lit up the sky, he relieved himself for a good half-hour.
▪ Because a screenplay has to specify everything in excruciating detail, it is almost as tedious to read as to write.
▪ Councils charged with caring for the public interest start to panic at the thought of this oversized weed with its excruciating sap.
▪ From David's point of view the yuletide festival was excruciating.
▪ Searing, excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body.
▪ She groaned, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
▪ The next few years were marked by excruciating poverty.
▪ Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excruciating

Excruciate \Ex*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating.] To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.

Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
--Drayton.

Excruciating

Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\ Torturing; racking. ``Excruciating pain.''
--V. Knox. ``Excruciating fears.''
--Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
excruciating

"extremely painful," 1590s, present participle adjective from excruciate. Related: Excruciatingly.

Wiktionary
excruciating

a. 1 Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing 2 Exceedingly intense; extreme

WordNet
excruciating

adj. extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome]

Usage examples of "excruciating".

She stared down into his amazingly potent eyes and issued her stark, excruciating demand.

The pain in his neck was excruciating, but he knew he must not flinch.

Damali sucker punched her with every bit of memory, sensation, and excruciating detail she could find.

It reminded him of that excruciating road trip to watch his grandfather die.

His left hand still gripped her wrist with excruciating force while he held his straight right forefinger aloft.

The weary tendons propelling him caught and skipped like frayed cables, one excruciating step after another.

What for so long would have been welcomed as a rightful penance, now crushed down on him in excruciating loss.

Saryon cried in an anguished voice, writhing in excruciating pain, his feet frozen to the sand.

Moreover, the excruciating separation and conflict of the two orders of moral commitment, of reason on one hand, and passionate love on the other, have been a source of Christian anxiety since the beginning.

But his lance, inscribed with the name of the Grail, had already unsexed the young king, and its head, broken off, remained in the excruciating wound.

The subject identifies himself simultaneously with both the victims and the aggressive forces of such conflicts, and as the intensity of the general agony mounts, it approaches and finally breaks beyond the pain threshold in an excruciating crisis of what Dr.

I decided that the only thing I could do was to watch every detail with excruciating thoroughness.

The pain in her foot was excruciating and the terror in her mind incapacitating.

The pain was excruciating as the rat bit into the tough material of the protective suit, the teeth not piercing but pinching the skin together.

After a few moments of excruciating silence, she glanced nervously over her shoulder, seeking their reflection in the mirror.