† excruciateadj.
Obsolete.
a. = excruciated adj. at excruciate v. Derivatives.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishousc1325
wounded1390
cruciate?1504
agoniousa1513
tormented1552
rivena1560
anguished1570
wracked1581
spur-galled1608
excruciatea1615
over-grieved1618
wrung1730
smarting1754
excruciated1792
cardialgic1811
lacerated1849
a1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Would she sit thus then excruciate?
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vii. 398 My heart, long time excruciate, Amongst the leaves I rested all that night.
b. = excruciating adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) ii. 620 Excruciate pains Seiz'd on our Father's frame.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
excruciatev.
/ɛkˈskruːʃɪˌeɪt/ 1. † a. literal. To subject to torture, put on the rack, etc.; figurative to ‘rack’ (one's brains) (obsolete).
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on the rack
spread?c1225
fordrawc1380
enginec1405
rack?a1439
stentc1480
streekc1480
draw1481
brake1530
excarnificate1570
excruciate1570
stretch1585
to break on the torture1598
distend1599
tenter1615
tousea1616
tympanize1647
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Div/1 To Excruciate, excruciare.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 75v They, that by pining and excruciating theyr bodies, lyue in hell heere on earth, to auoyd the hell neuer ending.
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 56 You shall not excruciate your braine to be conceited and haue no wit.
b. transferred. To cause intense pain to, torment acutely (a person's senses). Often hyperbolical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with anguish or torment
tintreghec1175
torment1297
raimc1300
pinse?c1335
grindc1350
sowa1352
pang1520
rack1562
torture1598
throea1616
pincer1620
excruciate1623
thumbscrew1771
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Perillus..invented a brazen Bull..made redhot to torment and excruciate malefactors.
1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle i. i May convulsions seize and excruciate my optick nerves.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 223 The bassoon, on which George Evans was wont..to excruciate the ears of the whole congregation.
2. figurative. To torture mentally, inflict extreme mental anguish upon.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)]
quelmeOE
eatc1000
martyrOE
fretc1175
woundc1175
to-fret?c1225
gnawc1230
to-traya1250
torment1297
renda1333
anguish1340
grindc1350
wringc1374
debreakc1384
ofpinec1390
rivea1400
urn1488
reboil1528
whip1530
cruciate1532
pinch1548
spur-galla1555
agonize1570
rack1576
cut1582
excruciate1590
scorchc1595
discruciate1596
butcher1597
split1597
torture1598
lacerate1600
harrow1603
hell1614
to eat upa1616
arrow1628
martyrize1652
percruciate1656
tear1666
crucify1702
flay1782
wrench1798
kill1800
to cut up1843
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. A5 This..doth excruciate The verie substance of my vexed soule.
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. xi. 61 He must..neither vex nor excruciate himself with losses or mischances.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 247 He neither blunts his mind nor excruciates it with cares.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 10 Mar. 73 If a customer talks longer than he is willing to hear, he will complain that he has been excruciated with unmeaning verbosity.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvi. 445 He described himself as excruciated with anxiety.
Derivatives
exˈcruciated adj. tormented, tortured.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishousc1325
wounded1390
cruciate?1504
agoniousa1513
tormented1552
rivena1560
anguished1570
wracked1581
spur-galled1608
excruciatea1615
over-grieved1618
wrung1730
smarting1754
excruciated1792
cardialgic1811
lacerated1849
1792 Minstrel (1793) I. 80 Oh my excruciated heart!
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