About The Word Excruciate
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Excruciate
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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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