Cutting
Cutting adjective - Causing intense discomfort to one's skin.
Excruciating and cutting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Excruciating" instead an adjective "Cutting".
Excruciating
Excruciating adjective - Intensely or unbearably painful.
Usage example: those who publicly disagreed with the government were subjected to excruciating torture
Cutting and excruciating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cutting" instead an adjective "Excruciating".
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- He's also more or less immortal, and the Megatron of that series gained control over him by cutting out a piece of Rampage's spark (in a nutshell, the soul of a Transformer) while he was unconscious and encasing it in a "squeeze box" that could cause Rampage excruciating pain if he disobeyed.
Source: Psycho for Hire
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