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excruciatingadjective intensely or unbearably painfulhe finally visited the doctor when the pain became too excruciating to ignore agonizing, harrowing, racking, raging, tormenting, torturing, torturous, wrenching acute, exquisite, extreme, fierce, intense, vehement, violentbiting, cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, shooting, smarting, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tingling difficult to endurethe excruciating heat that the settlers faced as they crossed the deserts of the Southwest bitter, brutal, burdensome, cruel, grievous, grim, hard, hardhanded, harsh, heavy, inhuman, murderous, onerous, oppressive, rough, rugged, searing, severe, stiff, tough, trying austere, bleak, comfortless, discomforting, forbidding, inhospitable, spartan, uncomfortablebiting, inclement, intemperate, wildrigorous, strict, stringentagonizing, heartbreaking, heartrending, painful, wretchedcrushing, grinding, overwhelming, wearinginsufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurableharrowing, tortuousbad, disagreeable, hostile, unfriendly, unpleasant easy, light, soft comfortable, cozy, luxurious, snugagreeable, friendly, genial, hospitable, pleasantpeaceful, relaxing, reposeful, restfulbearable, endurable, painless, tolerablebalmy, calm, clement, gentle, mild, moderate, temperate hard to accept or bear especially emotionallymost excruciating of all was the endless wait for news of any survivors of the plane crash afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportableappalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretchedacute, extreme, intense, piercing gratifying, pleasing, sweet bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerablelivable(also liveable), sufferable, survivableacceptable, allowable, reasonable extreme in degree, power, or effectthe excruciating grief they felt upon the loss of their dear grandfather acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intense, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepenedemphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnifiedstressedexhaustive, thoroughharsh, rigorous, severe light, moderate, soft feeble, weakshallow, superficialmoderated, qualifiedalleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued excruciatingverbpresent participle of excruciateto cause persistent suffering toshe has long been excruciated by an undiagnosed pain in her knee afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besetting, besieging, cursing, harrowing, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring in 1599 |