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Excruciate

Excruciate Meaning & Definition
Excruciate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Excruciate?

[v] subject to torture
[v] torment emotionally or mentally

Synonyms | Synonyms for Excruciate: rack | torment | torment | torture | torture

Related Terms | Find terms related to Excruciate:

See Also | anguish | hurt | injure | martyr | martyrise | martyrize | pain | rack | wound

Excruciate In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*cru"ci*ate\, 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. And here my heart long time excruciate. --Chapman.
\Ex*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excruciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Excruciating}.] To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. --Drayton.

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