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[syn: agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome]
The 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.
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Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
--Drayton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
excruciating
adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome]
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