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excruciate
[ ik-skroo-shee-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to inflict severe pain upon; torture:
The headache excruciated him.
- to cause mental anguish to; irritate greatly.
excruciate
/ ɪ°ìˈ²õ°ì°ù³ÜËʃɪˌ±ðɪ³Ù /
verb
- to inflict mental suffering on; torment
- obsolete.to inflict physical pain on; torture
Derived Forms
- ±ð³æËŒ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Ëˆ²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of excruciate1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of excruciate1
Example Sentences
It was to trigger an excruciating series of fruitless, island-wide searches and desperate appeals for help.
The prosecutor dwelled at excruciating length on Graham’s love letters to Prow.
For three days, a former trauma room nurse pleaded for a test to discover the root cause of the “excruciating†and prolonged pain suffered by her husband, a UCI Medical Center patient.
Despite increasingly unlivable conditions on Earth, the chance to suffer a variety of excruciating deaths over and over again is not something that most humans are jumping at.
The prime minister's appointment with President Donald Trump, a wildly unpredictable showman of very different political hue, could so easily have been awkward, even excruciating.
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