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excruciate

verb as in afflict

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"It feels like a stabbing pain, like someone is stabbing you form the inside outwards. It can last anything from half an hour to four days. It is excruciating," she said.

From BBC

Dr. Gail Van Norman, a medical expert retained to interpret the autopsy, noted that the sensation caused by pulmonary edema is “among the most excruciating feelings known to man.”

From Salon

Dr Sabine Hildebrandt, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School with a keen interest in the ethics of the period, told the BBC it was an "excruciating fact" that removing tissue after death was not unusual.

From BBC

The “Justice League” star said she had endured weeks of excruciating headaches that confined her to her bed before an MRI revealed in February that she had a “massive” blood clot in her brain.

The 39-year-old said she received the "terrifying" diagnosis in her eighth month of pregnancy, in February, after she had suffered weeks of "excruciating" headaches.

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