All 3 Uses
excruciating
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- There were centipedes three fingers wide whose bite caused excruciating pain for a day, butterflies as big as little birds, thick and nearly impenetrable jungles, bottomless mangrove swamps, man-eating-crocodile-infested rivers, millions of insects, four types of rats larger than house cats, and heavy daily torrents of rain bringing enervating humidity.†
Chpt 4. *
- And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†
Chpt 7.
- Why did he almost never speak of his past, and then only painfully, between long, excruciating silences?†
Chpt 14.
Definitions:
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(1)
(excruciating) extreme -- typically extremely painful or unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)