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excruciatingly

/ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting/US // ɪkˈskru ʃiˌeɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ɪkˈskruːʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ) //

苦不堪言,令人痛苦的是,令人痛苦的,痛苦不堪的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise; excruciating pain.
    • : exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme: done with excruciating care.

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Examples

  • Grandma died first, leaving this world feeling excruciating pain in her hips, pain that turned her beautiful soprano singing voice into screams with even the slightest movement.

  • In his 2019 book Food or War, the Australian journalist and author Julian Cribb describes the physical process of starvation in excruciating detail.

  • During excruciating weeks in February, the disease ripped through the massive ship, infecting hundreds of passengers off the port of Yokohama, Japan.

  • I think when you make a show, anytime you make a change, it’s going to be excruciating and painful.

  • Because you’re trying to deal with 50 different things every day that are painful and excruciating.

  • The rapper will.i.am was one such panelist, forced upon Gregory for an excruciatingly awkward roundtable segment.

  • The journey was excruciatingly long for the establishmentarians and cost them more than they ever anticipated.

  • But when Westboro came to town, they made it excruciatingly clear what hate really looked like.

  • In the case of the excruciatingly slow-growing red abalone, this could be ten to twelve years.

  • Over the past five years, Democrats have become excruciatingly sensitive to Republican abuses of this kind.

  • I have the first, perhaps, in Europe; but I would sell it a surprising bargain, for I am excruciatingly tired of it.'

  • Jackson smiled, yes, smiled, though his bandaged arms quivered and the seared nerves of his hands throbbed excruciatingly.

  • His humour was compared to Mark Twain's, and he to Barnum, and the show was "excruciatingly agreeable."

  • The language, of course, was partly the difficulty, but the natives are excruciatingly slow to move.

  • Hence the experiment of parting so soon after their union proved excruciatingly severe to these.