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excruciate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb excruciate has 2 senses
- excruciate(v = verb.emotion) rack, torment, torture - torment emotionally or mentally; Array is one way to anguish, hurt, pain
- excruciate(v = verb.body) torment, torture - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" is one way to injure, wound
Derived form noun excruciation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derived forms noun excruciation2, noun excruciation1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
excruciate, a. [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See Cruciate, Cross.].
Excruciated; tortured. [1913 Webster]
"And here my heart long time excruciate."
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excruciate, v. t.
To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. [1913 Webster]
"Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
excruciate, v.tr. (esp. as excruciating adj.) torment acutely (a person's senses); torture mentally.
Derivative
excruciatingly adv. excruciation n.
Etymology
L excruciare excruciat- (as EX-(1), cruciare torment f. crux crucis cross)
ROGET THESAURUS
excruciate
Physical Pain
VB feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain, suffer, ache, smart, bleed, tingle, shoot, twinge, twitch, lancinate, writhe, wince, make a wry face, sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles, give pain, inflict pain, lacerate, pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe, pinch, tweak, grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse, torment, torture, rack, agonize, crucify, cruciate, excruciate, break on the wheel, put to the rack, flog, grate on the ear.
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