The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
Torturing; racking. ``Excruciating pain.''
--V. Knox.
``Excruciating fears.''
--Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly,
adv.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish. 2 In a very intense or extreme manner.
WordNet
adv. in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly slow" [syn: agonizingly, torturously]
Usage examples of "excruciatingly".
The position was excruciatingly difficult to support, and whenever he relaxed, the air to his windpipe was immediately cut off.
I felt excruciatingly self conscious and could not bring myself to do it.
She was excruciatingly aware of his presence behind her, could feel the brush of his chest against her back.
A child may find himself in an environment that is frightening or even terrifying, frustrating, bewildering, perhaps excruciatingly painful.
The gnome walked excruciatingly slow and had only gone past five trees by the time the two sprights hopped in front of her.
CHAPTER 2 Sean O Lochlainn, Master Sorcerer, Fellow of the Royal Thaumaturgical Society, and Chief Forensic Sorcerer to His Royal Highness, Richard, Duke of Normandy, was excruciatingly angry and doing his best not to show it.
In place of her beautiful, throaty tones the room filled with an excruciatingly harsh, unmelodic gargling noise.
Describing the method of performing various experiments upon animals, it included a particular account of some of the most excruciatingly painful of the vivisections practised abroad.
She knew that to cannulate the fallopian tubes, the cervix had to be dilated, and dilating the cervix was excruciatingly painful.
For coalminers in Appalachia or textile workers in the French provinces, however, this proves to be excruciatingly painful.
At one point, Fidel makes an excruciatingly long speech in bad Spanish (it consumes a full 15 minutes of screen time), while the other actors all fall asleep and snore loudly.
Roger and Marie seemed unsuited to California, doubly unsuited to this century, yet they drove a red Jaguar, had been spotted attending excruciatingly stupid big budget action movies, and functioned fairly well as citizens of the new millennium.
This puts him in a listless mood as he embarks on an errand, which is bound to prove excruciatingly tedious in his considered estimation.
That was the same Philip the Fair who had recently confiscated all the wealth of the Knights Templars and was currently torturing the captive officers of the order excruciatingly to death and madness to wring confessions, so as to justify his seizure of their assets.
The present—prior—system of government is monstrously nonrepresentative in everything except name, and excruciatingly inefficient.