excruciatingly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From excruciating + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
excruciatingly (comparative more excruciatingly, superlative most excruciatingly)
- In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great anguish or pain.
- The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 92:
- My hunger was now tormenting me excruciatingly, and gave me no rest.
- In a very intense or extreme manner.
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Translations[edit]
in a manner causing great pain or anguish
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in a very intense or extreme manner