to excruciate
- verb
- /ɪkˈskruːʃieɪt/
- The doctor prescribed medication to help manage the excruciate pain after the surgery.
- excruciating pain
- excruciating agony
- excruciating torture
Examples
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After the accident, she suffered from excruciate pain that lasted for weeks.
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He described the excruciate headaches he experienced during his treatment as unbearable.
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After nine months of excruciating pain, - the cancer had spread.
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Well, this wedding caused me excruciating pain.
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The other, an acid that will cause an excruciating death.
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Her daughter and the angel scream together in excruciating pain.
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Excruciating pain shot through her left leg, but she pushed herself up again.
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He died in excruciating pain.
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Excruciating pain ripped through her shoulder and down her left side.
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Due to the excruciating pain, Kitty screamed for help, and a neighbor responded, shouting at the criminal.
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Synonyms
To cause someone to feel severe physical or emotional pain, often on purpose
Make someone feel pain or suffer harm
To cause someone to feel great physical or mental pain
To cause great physical or mental pain
To make someone feel physical hurt
To make someone feel very strong pain or deep worry
To cause someone to feel very strong pain or worry
Antonyms
How Painful
Surface Forms
Morphology
excruciate = cruciate (semi-transparent) = ex + cruciate
The verb is formed by the prefix 'ex-' added to 'cruciate' (related to crucify), but 'cruciate' is uncommon and the intensifying/metaphorical extension to 'extreme pain' may not be obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Excruciate comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out of' and crux 'cross' and is related to the word crucify. It first meant putting someone on a cross, which was a very painful punishment, so today excruciate means to cause extreme physical or mental suffering.