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The definition of excruciating is something that is extremely bad, such as extreme pain or extreme mental anguish.

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Getting a tooth pulled without Novocaine is an example of something that might be described as excruciating.

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See excruciating in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

causing intense physical or mental pain; agonizing
intense or extreme: with excruciating attention to detail

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excruciatingly adverb

See excruciating in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

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

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ex·cruˈci·atˌing·ly adverb

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