excruciate
[verb]
Synonyms: afflict, agonize, crucify, harrow, martyr, rack, torment, torture, try, wring

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Related Idioms: prolong the agony
Related Words: inflame, irritate, hurt, pain, wound, convulse

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excruciate verb trans. [ɪk'skru:ʃɪeɪt, ɛk-] L16.
[Latin excruciat- pa. ppl stem of excruciare torment, formed as EX-¹ 1 + cruc-, crux cross: see -ATE³.]
1. Torment acutely (a person's senses). Formerly also, subject to physical torture; rack (one's brains). Now chiefly hyperbol. L16.

2. Torture mentally, inflict extreme mental anguish on. L16.

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