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Antonyms for excruciation
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ik-skroo-shee-ey-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˌskru ʃiˈeɪ ʃən |
Definition of excruciation
- As in torment : noun severe mental distress
- As in torture : noun severe mental or physical pain
- The proper bows were interchanged; and then came Crang's excruciation.
- Extract from : « Perlycross » by R. D. Blackmore
- Let us take a common sense view of this excruciation—ex—ex—I mean exquisite argument.
- Extract from : « Rattlin the Reefer » by Edward Howard
- Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness.
- Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith
- To be far off the key is to be in another key, but to smite at a note and muff it is excruciation.
- Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
- Only meanwhile he wants—it was a phrase of his own—to keep all the excruciation for his own private enjoyment.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
Synonyms for excruciation
- ache
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- annoyance
- bane
- bother
- cruciation
- crucifixion
- distress
- dolor
- excruciation
- harassment
- hell
- impalement
- irritation
- laceration
- martyrdom
- misery
- nag
- nagging
- nuisance
- pain
- pain in the neck
- pang
- persecution
- pest
- plague
- provocation
- rack
- scourge
- suffering
- third degree
- torment
- torture
- tribulation
- trouble
- twinge
- vexation
- worry
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