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excruciation

/ik-skroo-shee-ey-shuhn/US // ɪkˌskru ʃiˈeɪ ʃən //

苦难,痛苦,极度痛苦,痛苦不堪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of excruciating.
    • : the state of being excruciated.
    • : an instance of this; torture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intorment

Examples

  • It is possible the matter might have blown over without more excruciation if nothing else had happened.

  • The proper bows were interchanged; and then came Crang's excruciation.

  • Only meanwhile he wants—it was a phrase of his own—to keep all the excruciation for his own private enjoyment.

  • Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness.

  • To be far off the key is to be in another key, but to smite at a note and muff it is excruciation.