excruciate
Example Sentences
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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.
Finally, after roughly 15 excruciating minutes, Ostrovsky got a message back from his wife.
"When you watch the finished product, for most actors, that's an excruciating experience. It's something you kind of have to go through."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
