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excrutiatingly Definition


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excruciating
adj
    1. Causing great physical or mental pain.
      Thesaurus: agonizing, intense, painful, unbearable, intolerable, extreme, severe, acute, sharp, insufferable, searing, torturous.
    2. colloq
      Extremely bad or irritating.
Derivative: excrutiatingly
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Latin excruciare to torture, from cruciare, cruciatum to crucify.



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