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Definition
extremely painful—physically as from a toothache or emotionally as from embarrassment- My toothache is excruciating.
excruciating = extremely painful
- At that age it caused excruciating embarrassment.
- She suffers excruciating headaches.
- Why, you have saved my life!—snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death!Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- Almost instantly the excruciating pain in his hand had diminished to the throb which was, now, all he could recall of the experience.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- The Giver hesitated painfully, as if saying the name aloud might be excruciating.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- His walk to our table is excruciatingly slow.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Excruciating hunger and starvation.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Jonas asked him after he had received a torturous memory in which he had been neglected and unfed; the hunger had caused excruciating spasms in his empty, distended stomach.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- The eyes of the town are turning with excruciating reluctance toward the new flow and the new era.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- An excruciating tingling filled Eragon's limbs as the spirits raced through his body, coursing down every one of his nerves.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- The pain from his ribs was excruciating, and the current continued to beat him down.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- The pain in his neck was excruciating—his head had snapped back from the impact of Janza's fist.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- Teabing felt the truth come crashing down on him in excruciating austerity.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Arthritis has found my fingers, I am in excruciating pain, and I fear my entries here in your pages, Dear Diary, shall be fewer and farther between.Stephen King -- Rose Red
- "It is excruciatingly cold," I said, and he began to laugh.Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
- She was an excruciating throb of pain from one end to the other.Stephen King -- The Shining
- The pain is excruciating.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
excruciating = extremely painful (emotionally)
excruciating = extremely painful
excruciating = extremely painful
excruciating = extremely painful
excruciatingly = extremely embarrassing
excruciating = extremely painful
excruciating = extremely painful