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Excruciate

//ɛkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Excruciated; tortured. obsolete

    "1616, George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey And here my heart long time excruciate Amongst the leaves I rested all that night."

Verb
  1. 1
    To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture. transitive

    "But this it is that doth excruciate The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule: To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name, Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]"

  2. 2
    subject to torture wordnet
  3. 3
    torment emotionally or mentally wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- + cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).

Etymology 2

From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- + cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).

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