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单词 excruciatingly
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excruciatingly

/ɛkˈskruːʃɪeɪtɪŋli /
adverb
1To an intensely painful degree: it stings excruciatingly...
  • The ride was excruciatingly painful.
  • The alto flute is heavy and tiring to play, and any piece longer than about 10 minutes without breaks is excruciatingly painful to perform!
  • Early on during the descent, Joe broke his leg, forcing Simon to lower him down by two 150 ft. ropes, in an excruciatingly slow and painful manner for both climbers.
1.1 [as submodifier] Used to emphasize how embarrassing, awkward, or tedious something is: the day passed excruciatingly slowly I was excruciatingly shy at that age...
  • I'm short, skinny and have excruciatingly underdeveloped social skills.
  • The drive had been excruciatingly silent in the twenty minutes it had taken them to exit the city and venture along the main highway.
  • Although the Portuguese advance southwards was excruciatingly slow, once the cape had been rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 progress in the Indian Ocean was nothing short of spectacular.
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