Severe, strict, harsh. Of pain, suffering, grief, etc.: Keen, acute, intense. Of experiences: Intensely painful.

Of a disease, wound, or pain: Causing great suffering or danger; acute, severe. Now rare.

Of pain (physical or mental), sorrow, etc.: sharp, keen, painful, severe. Also of a wound or other cause of discomfort.

Intensely painful or destructive; keen, piercing; deadly. Of a thing, esp. a natural agent, weapon, disease, suffering, poison, etc.

Too distressing, severe, or painful to be borne; going beyond the limits of physical endurance. Of outward things.

Of agencies that affect the mind. Of circumstances, thoughts, feelings, etc.: Causing acute pain or deep distress. Also, of pain, grief, etc.: Acute…

Originally: painfully sharp to the physical or mental feelings, as hunger, thirst, a pang, an affront, etc.; also said of a state of feeling, as…

That tears or lacerates; (in later use esp.) that causes great emotional pain.

Of pains, diseases, evil influences: Raging, cruel. Obsolete.

Of pain: Severe. Obsolete.

Unendurable, intolerable.

Causing agony or extreme anguish; exceedingly painful physically or mentally; (in weakened sense) causing worry, causing difficulty in making a…

That torments, in various senses of the verb.

Excruciating, racking.

Of a disease or pain: violent.

Of pain: as if caused by a sharp point; piercing, stabbing; pricking. Also: painful. In later use figurative (cf. sense A. 5). Now rare.

Torturing, tormenting; causing intense pain or suffering.

Of pain, pleasure, etc.: acting keenly on the senses or emotions; keen, poignant, intense.

That wrenches or twists; of the nature of a wrench. Also figurative.

That excruciates or causes extreme pain or anguish, whether bodily or mental; tormenting, torturing, agonizing. Const. to.

Of pain, etc.: Excruciating, racking, wearing.

= excruciating, adj.

torturous, excruciating.

That cannot be endured; insufferable.

Capacity to endure, endurance. of bare sufferance, barely endurable. Obsolete.