Hypertext Webster Gateway: "excruciating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Excruciate \Ex*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excruciated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Excruciating}.]
To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment
greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
--Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
Torturing; racking. ``Excruciating pain.'' --V. Knox.
``Excruciating fears.'' --Bentley -- {Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly},
adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
excruciating
adj : extremely painful [syn: {agonizing}, {agonising}, {harrowing},
{torturing}, {torturous}, {torturesome}]
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