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excruciate

[ ik-skroo-shee-eyt ]

verb (used with object)

excruciated, excruciating.
  1. to inflict severe pain upon; torture:

    The headache excruciated him.

  2. to cause mental anguish to; irritate greatly.


excruciate

/ ɪ°ìˈ²õ°ì°ù³ÜËʃɪˌ±ðɪ³Ù /

verb

  1. to inflict mental suffering on; torment
  2. obsolete.
    to inflict physical pain on; torture
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Derived Forms

  • ±ð³æËŒ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Ëˆ²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of excruciate1

1560–70; < Latin ±ð³æ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Äå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ±ð³æ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Äå°ù±ð to torment, torture, equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Äå°ù±ð to torment, crucify (derivative of crux cross); -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of excruciate1

C16: from Latin ±ð³æ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Äå°ù±ð, from ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±Äå°ù±ð to crucify, from crux cross
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It was to trigger an excruciating series of fruitless, island-wide searches and desperate appeals for help.

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The prosecutor dwelled at excruciating length on Graham’s love letters to Prow.

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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.

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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.

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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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