Excruciating vs Ordeal - What's the difference?
excruciating | ordeal |
Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
Exceedingly intense; extreme
A painful or trying experience.
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A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
As an adjective excruciating
is causing great pain or anguish, agonizing.As a noun ordeal is
a painful or trying experience.excruciating
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry (rfdate)
ordeal
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Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Arsène Wenger confessed: "The result was not an accurate indication of the match." Certainly, at half-time it seemed unlikely that Arsenal would catch fire so spectacularly because the first half was a damp squib of a display from Wenger's team, as Newcastle initially showed no ill-effects from their Old Trafford ordeal .}}