You searched for: “excruciating
excruciate (verb), excruciates; excruciated; excruciating
1. To torture someone by inflicting physical pain.
2. To inflict severe mental and emotional distress on someone.
This entry is located in the following unit: cruci-, crux (page 2)
excruciating (adjective), more excruciating, most excruciating
1. Intensely painful; agonizing: When James slipped and fell on the icy steps, he suffered excruciating pain in his arm because it was broken.
2. Very intense or extreme: Mary wrote her essay with excruciating precision and accuracy.
Torturing or intense hurting.
© ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

This entry is located in the following unit: cruci-, crux (page 2)
Word Entries at Get Words: “excruciating
A reference to something which hurts very much or is terribly painful. (1)