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excruciating (ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting) adj., Extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing.
The headache she had before leaving her parents’ house escalated to excruciating levels as a direct result of the late-night construction and idiot drivers she was forced to endure en route to Baltimore.
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