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The infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
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excruciation
Word definitions for excruciation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excruciation \Ex*cru`ci*a"tion\n. [L. excruciatio.] The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. --Feltham.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Some excruciating pain.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of acute pain [syn: agony , suffering ] the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: crucifixion ]
Usage examples of excruciation.
Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.
No aspect of her being remained intact to ward her against the meticulous excruciation of the caesure.
She sensed them distinctly, in spite of the aftershocks, the residual excruciation, of the caesure.
That excruciation she re-created in her mind as she focused her argence closer and closer to the gap between the instants.
If the guild had particular excruciations reserved for specific individuals, I knew nothing of it.
Because I had wished to impress Dorcas, I had hoped to perform the excruciation we call two apricots.
His forehead was pale with the excruciation of his lust and abhorrence.
It lay at the root of her black mood, felt like the excruciation which clawed the nerves of her elbow.
I was not yet free, since all the details of excruciations and administration that had been accumulating during my attendance on the archon remained to be dealt with.
There are silent means of excruciation that require no equipment, and although they are not spectacular, they are quite effective.
She didn't want to imagine all the things the Baenre might do to her, but she herself had presided over enough excruciations that it was difficult not to envision the possibilities.
But with Goblin it can become a flaming passion, with him trying to work everybody up to go out and treat a few tax people to grotesque excruciations and deaths.
But his most stinging excruciations come from guilt, and from a transgression that lies much closer to home.