EXCRUCIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excruciate mean? 

• EXCRUCIATE (verb)
  The verb EXCRUCIATE has 2 senses:

1. torment emotionally or mentally

2. subject to torture

  Familiarity information: EXCRUCIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCRUCIATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Torment emotionally or mentally

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

excruciate; rack; torment; torture

Hypernyms (to "excruciate" is one way to...):

anguish; hurt; pain (cause emotional anguish or make miserable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

excruciation (a state of acute pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to torture

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

excruciate; torment; torture

Context example:

The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible

Hypernyms (to "excruciate" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excruciate"):

rack (torture on the rack)

martyr; martyrise; martyrize (torture and torment like a martyr)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

excruciation (the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering)

excruciation (a state of acute pain)