Excruciate

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  • transitive verb. To inflict severe pain on; torture.
  • transitive verb. To inflict great mental distress on.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To torture; torment; inflict very severe pain upon, as if by crucifying: as, to excruciate the feelings.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Excruciated; tortured.
  • transitive verb. To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. torment emotionally or mentally
  • verb. subject to torture
    • Word Usage
    "Fenway Park is our, to coin a word, excruciate -- something anyone who witnessed those extra-inning classics against the Yankees will instantly understand."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anguish  hurt  pain  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    excruciated  rack  torture  tortured  
    verb-form
    excruciated  excruciating  
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