Topic: ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Origin: | excruciate 'to cause great pain to' (16-21 centuries), from Latin excruciare, from cruciare 'to crucify', from crux 'cross' |
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ex‧cru‧ci‧at‧ing
1MI extremely painful : When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating.
When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating.2 if something is excruciating, it is extremely unpleasant, for example because it is boring or embarrassing : Helen described the events of the night before in excruciating detail.
Helen described the events of the night before in excruciating detail. —excruciatingly adverb: His poetry is excruciatingly bad.
His poetry is excruciatingly bad.