excruciate
Example Sentences
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"The pain is excruciating, at its worst it's like barbed wire inside me and clinging to my organs. I am so ill I can often spend days in bed," Maguire said.
From BBC
She said she is still in excruciating back pain from her surgery.
From Los Angeles Times
Lying down helped, so she tried to get some sleep, but by the next morning the pain had become excruciating.
From BBC
If there’s a positive for Miami, it’s that one NFL team committed a similarly excruciating error and has surprisingly emerged as one of the game’s best teams nonetheless.
It lasted about 15 minutes—the longest, most excruciating period of my life—before I was able to make contact with my family.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
