adj
Meaning 1
Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lacerating, poignant
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
excruciating
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈskɹuːʃi.eɪtɪŋ/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ɪkˈskɹʉwʃɪjɛjtɪŋ/
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Midlands, Northern-England: /ɪkˈskɹuːʃi.eɪtɪŋɡ/ without NG-coalescence
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Scotland: /ɪkˈskɾʉʃi.etɪŋ/
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Wales: /ɪkˈskɾɪʊʃi.eːtɪŋ/ without the pane–pain merger
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General-American: /ɪkˈskɹuʃi.eɪtɪŋ/
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General-American: /ək-/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australian: /əkˈskɹʉːʃi.æɪtɪŋ/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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New-Zealand: /əkˈskɹʉːʃi.æɪtəŋ/
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New-Zealand: [əkˈskɹʉːʃi.æɪtɪŋ]
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adj
Meaning 2
Exceedingly intense; extreme
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
extremely painful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: agonizing, agonising, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Present participle of excruciate, from Latin excruciō, from ex- + cruciō (“to torment”).
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ծանր (canr) — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Dutch: martelend — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Dutch: ondraaglijk — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Finnish: kiduttava — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Finnish: sietämätön — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- French: insoutenable — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- French: atroce — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- French: terrible — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- German: quälend — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- German: unerträglich — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- German: qualvoll — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Hiligaynon: búsug — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Italian: atroce — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Italian: straziante — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Italian: lancinante — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Latin: cruciabilis — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Manx: ard-phianjagh — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Polish: rozdzierający — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Portuguese: excruciante — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Russian: мучи́тельный (mučítelʹnyj) — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Spanish: lacerante — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Spanish: insoportable — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Spanish: espantoso — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Spanish: excruciante — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Swedish: olidlig — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Swedish: plågsam — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Turkish: canhıraş — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Turkish: yürek dağlayan — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Welsh: dirdynnol — Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
- Dutch: extreem — Very intense; extreme
- Dutch: intens — Very intense; extreme
- Finnish: musertava — Very intense; extreme
- Spanish: insoportable — Very intense; extreme
- Turkish: feci — Very intense; extreme
- Welsh: dirdynnol — Very intense; extreme
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