Excruciate
[iks'kru:ʃieit]
Definition
(a.) Excruciated; tortured.
(v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Torture, torment, rack, agonize.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agonize, torture, torment, rack
ANT:Soothe, please, tranquilize
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Definition
v.t. to torture: to rack: to pain grieve.—p.adj. Excru′ciāting extremely painful: racking: torturing: agonising.—adv. Excru′ciatingly.—n. Excruciā′tion torture: vexation.
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Examples
- Her presence used to excruciate Osborne; but go she would upon all parties of pleasure on which she heard her young friends were bent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Even the turning of his head caused him such excruciating agony that he lay still with closed eyes for a long time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- These she began to thrust into the image in all directions, with apparently excruciating energy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Soon all were asleep; but long before morning first one and then another of our party began to cry out with excruciating pain in the eyes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No word of complaint passed his tight set lips, though the pain of his wounds was excruciating. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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