excruciating

4 definitions found

excruciating - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
                                                    --Drayton.
     [1913 Webster]

  Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
     Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." --V. Knox.
     "Excruciating fears." --Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly,
     adv.
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excruciating - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  excruciating
      adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
             excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
             torturesome]

excruciating - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "excruciating":
     acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming,
     cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, exquisite,
     extreme, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh,
     heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding,
     hurtful, hurting, insufferable, intense, keen, painful, paroxysmal,
     piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp,
     shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging,
     tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, unbearable, unendurable,
     vivid