excruciating
46
7.9
- adjective
- /ɪkˈskruːʃieɪtɪŋ/
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excruciante
- The surgeon warned her that the recovery process might involve excruciating discomfort.
- excruciating pain
- in excruciating detail
He gave his best to his family under the most excruciating, painful circumstances.
- He gave his best to his family under the most excruciating, painful circumstances.
- You know, these people live in and live in dire, excruciating circumstances.
- And so it, it felt crampy, but it didn't feel excruciating at that point.
- Obviously not that night and the the pain was excruciating, but I realized that the stakes were worth it.
- So every time I'm stepping, I'm just like, it's just excruciating pain.
- I wouldn't have had to go through a week of excruciating pain and bleeding and passing my baby.
- And I don't know, I just, it just was really, really excruciating and I was just white knuckling it.
- But this was the real thing and the pain was excruciating.
- It's like it can be excruciating.
- I have sat through long, excruciating speeches without complaining like any other decent human being.
- During World War One, there were soldiers who had lost their limbs in excruciating pain and they would give these soldiers morphine.
- So I was sent home prematurely after a few days in the hospital in excruciating pain.
- So he went back and got it, came back up, started to dig a hole in the ground and got this excruciating pain in the back of his head.
- So he did the first one and immediately I could think about it and not pass out or have a excruciating headache.
Examples
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Sandy was on her second one when she felt an excruciating pain in her right ankle.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's the most excruciating pain you can have, next to giving birth.
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Her first major symptom was excruciating head pain, like the worst migraine you could ever have times 10.
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I'm in excruciating pain.
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Paul tightens his fist around the box, shutting his eyes, fighting the excruciating pain in his head.
Fiction book (2002) -
They have watched loved ones die, cared for them as they suffered excruciating treatments or provided their palliative care.
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After the accident, he experienced excruciating pain in his leg.
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She described the excruciating headache she had after the long flight.
Synonyms
737
1.0
Making someone feel physical hurt or strong emotional upset
142
4.2
Very harsh and severe, causing great difficulty or pain
89
3.9
Too painful or unpleasant to stand
58
7.2
Too terrible to describe in words
27
8.2
Causing very strong fear or sadness
26
7.9
Causing great pain or sorrow
16
8.4
Causing very strong pain to the body or mind
9
7.5
Causing very strong emotional or physical pain
7
5.9
Causing very strong physical or emotional pain
3
8.0
Too unpleasant or painful to bear
Causing very strong physical or mental pain
Causing very strong physical or mental pain
Causing very strong physical or mental pain
Antonyms
How Painful
Surface Forms
Morphology
excruciating = excruciate (semi-transparent) = excruciate + ing
Formed by adding the productive adjectival/participial suffix '-ing' to the verb 'excruciate', but 'excruciate' is relatively uncommon and its internal structure is not obvious to many learners.
Etymology
Excruciating comes from a Latin word that meant 'to crucify', and its root crux meant 'cross'. So the idea was the terrible pain of being put on a cross, which is why excruciating now means 'extremely painful'.