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excruciate (verb), excruciates; excruciated; excruciating
1. To torture someone by inflicting physical pain.
2. To inflict severe mental and emotional distress on someone.
2. To inflict severe mental and emotional distress on someone.
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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.
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2. Very intense or extreme: Mary wrote her essay with excruciating precision and accuracy.
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“excruciating”
A reference to something which hurts very much or is terribly painful. (1)
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