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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
excruciating
    adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
           excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
           torturesome]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excruciate \Ex*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating.]
   To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment
   greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
   [1913 Webster]

         Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
                                                  --Drayton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
   Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." --V. Knox.
   "Excruciating fears." --Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly,
   adv.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Excruciating:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, exquisite, extreme, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, insufferable, intense, keen, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, unbearable, unendurable, vivid
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