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Verb: excruciate  ik'skrooshee`eyt
  1. Torment emotionally or mentally
    - torment, torture, rack
     
  2. Subject to torture
    - torture, torment

Derived forms: excruciates, excruciated, excruciating

See also: excruciation

Type of: anguish, hurt, injure, pain, wound

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