excruciating

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All--excruciating, damning pain--and pro tempore_--I knew no more N.B.--It was subsequently ascertained, by my friend the late Mr. Supton, that a man named Hugesson, who had been for a short time head keeper at the Zoological Gardens, had been found dead, in bed, by his landlady, with a look on his face so awful that she had fled shrieking from the room.

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  1. adjective Intensely painful; agonizing.
  2. adjective Very intense or extreme: wrote with excruciating precision.

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  • The pain in her back became excruciating, and she fainted before they reached her door. —  Garwood, Julie - Ransom
  • With a cleverness which was almost excruciating, the Aliens had carefully selected a number of animals native to each world, and then constructed robot duplicates. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • The pain was excruciating, and a person feigning unconsciousness would invariably betray himself. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • So we had to sit through almost an hour of excruciating, arse-numbing twaddle, knowing that, at the end, there would be virtually no chance to challenge him on any of the points that he made. —  Planet Atheism
  • "Until the governor and the Legislature can remove the disincentive from retiring … we're going to face excruciating issues with our staff," he said. —  RutlandHerald.com
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