The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excruciate \Ex*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
--Drayton.
Excruciate \Ex*cru"ci*ate\, a. [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.
--Chapman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Excruciated; tortured. v
(context transitive English) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
WordNet
Usage examples of "excruciate".
She stared down into his amazingly potent eyes and issued her stark, excruciating demand.
The pain in his neck was excruciating, but he knew he must not flinch.
Damali sucker punched her with every bit of memory, sensation, and excruciating detail she could find.
It reminded him of that excruciating road trip to watch his grandfather die.
His left hand still gripped her wrist with excruciating force while he held his straight right forefinger aloft.
The weary tendons propelling him caught and skipped like frayed cables, one excruciating step after another.
What for so long would have been welcomed as a rightful penance, now crushed down on him in excruciating loss.
Saryon cried in an anguished voice, writhing in excruciating pain, his feet frozen to the sand.
Moreover, the excruciating separation and conflict of the two orders of moral commitment, of reason on one hand, and passionate love on the other, have been a source of Christian anxiety since the beginning.
But his lance, inscribed with the name of the Grail, had already unsexed the young king, and its head, broken off, remained in the excruciating wound.
The subject identifies himself simultaneously with both the victims and the aggressive forces of such conflicts, and as the intensity of the general agony mounts, it approaches and finally breaks beyond the pain threshold in an excruciating crisis of what Dr.
I decided that the only thing I could do was to watch every detail with excruciating thoroughness.
The pain in her foot was excruciating and the terror in her mind incapacitating.
The pain was excruciating as the rat bit into the tough material of the protective suit, the teeth not piercing but pinching the skin together.
After a few moments of excruciating silence, she glanced nervously over her shoulder, seeking their reflection in the mirror.