Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a very painful manner;
- Example: "the progress was agonizingly slow"[syn: agonizingly, excruciatingly, torturously]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." --V. Knox.
"Excruciating fears." --Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly,
adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
excruciatingly
adv 1: in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly
slow" [syn: agonizingly, excruciatingly,
torturously]