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excruciating

Main Entry: excruciating

Function: adjective

Date: 1599

1 : causing great pain or anguish : agonizing <the nation's most excruciating dilemma — W. H. Ferry>
2 : very intense : extreme <excruciating pain>

— ex·cru·ci·at·ing·ly \-ˌā-tiŋ-lē\ adverb

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