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English Dictionary: excruciate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
excruciate
v
  1. torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack]
  2. subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
    Synonym(s): torture, excruciate, torment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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