Vocabulary
Excruciating
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
intensely painful.
Urdu meaning
انتہائی تکلیف دہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- And for that, it requires expressing solidarity with all journalists trying to do their job under excruciating circumstances.
- This liability has become excruciating, with the idle capacity payment increased from 60pc to 85pc under the 2015 policy.
- IT is impossible for anyone to imagine the excruciating ordeal of polio survivors.
- All those steps taken in the first few years of the Musharraf regime were nothing more than treading water,despite the excruciating pain it was imposing on the populace.
- For example, the country went through an excruciating period of uncertainty·when default seemed to be staring us in the face -before the IMF approved a mere $1.2bn in July, the first tranche of a $3bn bailout.
Synonyms
agonizing, extremely painful, severe, acute, intense, extreme, savage, violent, racking,
Curator example
“excruciating back pain”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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