excruciating+pain

  • 1excruciating pain — agonizing pain, extreme pain, intense pain …

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  • 2excruciating — excruciating, agonizing, racking mean intensely and, usually, unbearably painful. All are commonly used as strong intensives and applied to pain, suffering, and torture. When used to qualify other things, they mean causing intense pain or… …

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  • 3Excruciating — Ex*cru ci*a ting Torturing; racking. Excruciating pain. V. Knox. Excruciating fears. Bentley {Ex*cru ci*a ting*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4excruciating — [[t]ɪkskru͟ːʃieɪtɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (emphasis) If you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally. I was in excruciating pain and one leg wouldn t move... Her search… …

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  • 5excruciating — adjective Date: 1599 1. causing great pain or anguish ; agonizing < the nation s most excruciating dilemma W. H. Ferry > 2. very intense ; extreme < excruciating pain > • excruciatingly adverb …

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  • 6excruciating — excruciatingly, adv. /ik skrooh shee ay ting/, adj. 1. extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise; excruciating pain. 2. exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme: done with excruciating …

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  • 7pain — pain1 W2S2 [peın] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: peine, from Latin poena, from Greek poine payment, punishment ] 1.) [U and C] the feeling you have when part of your body hurts pain in ▪ The pain in her jaw had come back. ▪ I had …

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  • 8pain — [[t]pe͟ɪn[/t]] ♦♦ pains, pained 1) N VAR Pain is the feeling of great discomfort you have, for example when you have been hurt or when you are ill. ...back pain. ...a bone disease that caused excruciating pain... To help ease the pain, heat can&#8230; …

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  • 9excruciating — adjective excruciating pain Syn: agonizing, severe, acute, intense, violent, racking, searing, piercing, stabbing, raging; unbearable, unendurable; informal splitting, killing …

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  • 10excruciating — ex•cru•ci•at•ing [[t]ɪkˈskru ʃiˌeɪ tɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) causing intense suffering; tormenting 2) intense or extreme: excruciating pain[/ex] • Etymology: 1655–65 ex•cru′ci•at ing•ly, adv …

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