Synonyms for excruciating
ɪkˈskru ʃiˌeɪ tɪŋex·cru·ci·at·ing

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1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, torturing, agonising, torturesome, torturous, agonizing

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. excruciatingadjective

   Synonyms:
   torturing, tormenting, very painful

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1. List of paraphrases for "excruciating":

   atrocious, awful

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1. Jenn Thalasinos:

   The waiting was excruciating because you're trying to hold out hope.

2. Jeanne Brown:

   Dale Baich don't know what excruciating is. What's excruciating is seeing Dale Baich dad laying there in a pool of blood, seeing Dale Baich sister laying there in a pool of blood. This man deserved it. And I shouldn't really call him a man.

3. Diane Foley:

   There really wasn't anyone in the government who was accountable. They may have cared in many ways, but Jim was at the bottom of a very long list of other tasks for most of the people we met, it really was a very isolating, upsetting, excruciating ordeal.

4. Coast Guard:

   The decision to suspend was excruciating and gut-wrenching.

5. Former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg:

   Were talking about families that may have picked out a name -- may beassembling a crib -- and they learn something excruciating and are faced with this terrible choice -- and I dont know what to tell them morally about what they should do, i just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally isnt going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it in a certain way.