excruciate

Verb
Synonyms: tormenttorturerack

Open English WordNet

Verb (2)excruciated, excruciating

  1. torment emotionally or mentallySynonyms: tormenttorturerackMore general pain, anguish
  2. subject to torture“The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible”Synonyms: torturetormentMore general injure, woundMore specific rack, martyr

Related words torment noun, tormenter noun, persecutor noun, torture noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ex·cru′ci·ate adjective

Origin: 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.— George Chapman
Ex·cru′ci·ate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Excruciated; present participle & verbal noun 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.— Michael Drayton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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