Sample Sentences for
excruciating
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    She suffers excruciating headaches.
    excruciating = extremely painful
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    Pain, excruciating at times, filled his days like a shrill and constant noise.  (source)
    excruciating = extreme
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    When I came back down, he was slowly waking up out of the narcotics to the excruciating day.  (source)
    excruciating = extremely unpleasant
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    Throughout the test, Liesel sat with a mixture of hot anticipation and excruciating fear.  (source)
    excruciating = extremely unpleasant
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    His walk to our table is excruciatingly slow.  (source)
    excruciatingly = extremely embarrassing
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    Her presence used to excruciate Osborne; but go she would upon all parties of pleasure on which she heard her young friends were bent.†  (source)
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    "Upon my soul and body, this here stooping do fairly make my back open and shut!" he exclaimed, straightening himself slowly with an excruciated look till quite upright.†  (source)
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    It is possible the matter might have blown over without more excruciation if nothing else had happened.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The Giver hesitated painfully, as if saying the name aloud might be excruciating.  (source)
    excruciating = extremely painful
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    He held her eyes for an excruciatingly long time in an unblinking way that made her knuckles go pale around the milk bottle, and it took all that Laila could muster to not falter.  (source)
    excruciatingly = extremely
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    —' Mr Halloway needing something to excruciate, bit his cigar.†  (source)
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    And then we were both excruciated by our terrible desire, and catching each other at the same moment with almost fierce hands, we did it, we laughed.†  (source)
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    Sometimes things of magnitude settle over you with excruciating slowness.  (source)
    excruciating = extreme
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