EXCRUCIATING

agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome

(adjective) extremely painful

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

excruciating (comparative more excruciating, superlative most excruciating)

Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing

Exceedingly intense; extreme

Source: Wiktionary


Ex*cru"ci*a`ting

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

EXCRUCIATE

Ex*cru"ci*ate, a. Etym: [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See Cruciate, Cross.]

Definition: Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman.

Ex*cru"ci*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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