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excruciate

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˈskɹuʃieɪ̯t/Part of speech verbSorted acceeirtuxStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. subject to torture

Word origin

From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- + cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).

Used in a sentence

  • But this it is that doth excruciate The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule: To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name, Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]
  • 1616, George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey And here my heart long time excruciate Amongst the leaves I rested all that night.

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