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excruciate

verb as in afflict

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Mr O'Hara said he immediately felt an "excruciating pain" but his visitor told him that was a normal reaction, then left in a hurry.

From BBC

But thankfully, the excruciating dating show concludes just as abruptly as it begins.

From Salon

It's been 10 months since my family left Gaza but we continue to live with the loss, the pain, the impact of the war in all its excruciating detail.

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No wonder he’s considered the greatest Dodgers pitcher of all time and no wonder he was forced to retire a year later because of excruciating arm pain.

"We'll be back again at some point next year for an excruciating line-by-line process of going through the costs," says media lawyer Jonathan Coad, who has followed the case from the start.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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