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Adjective: excruciating  ik'skroo-shee,ey-ting or ek'skroo-shee,ey-ting
  1. Extremely painful
    "The patient described an excruciating headache";
    - agonizing, agonising [Brit], harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome
Verb: excruciate  ik'skroo-shee,eyt or ek'skroo-shee,eyt
Usage: archaic
  1. Subject to torture
    "The prisoners were excruciated by their captors";
    - torture, torment
     
  2. Torment emotionally or mentally
    "The suspense excruciates her";
    - torment, torture, rack, wrack

See also: painful

Type of: anguish, hurt, injure, pain, wound

Encyclopedia: Excruciating

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