Excruciating

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
                                                    --Drayton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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