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Verb: excruciate  ik'skroo-shee`eyt or ek'skroo-shee`eyt
  1. Torment emotionally or mentally
    - torment, torture, rack
     
  2. Subject to torture
    "The sinners will be excruciated in Hell, according to the Bible"
    - torture, torment

Derived forms: excruciating, excruciates, excruciated

See also: excruciation

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

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