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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]:
Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
Torturing; racking. ``Excruciating pain.'' --V. Knox.
``Excruciating fears.'' --Bentley -- {Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly},
adv
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
excruciating
adj : extremely painful [syn: {agonizing}, {harrowing}, {torturing},
{torturous}, {torturesome}]
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