excruciation

[ ik-skroo-shee-ey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of excruciating. excruciating.
2. the state of being excruciated.
3. an instance of this; torture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of excruciation¹

1610–20; < Late Latin excruciātiōn- (stem of excruciātiō )

Example Sentences

It is possible the matter might have blown over without more excruciation if nothing else had happened.

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The proper bows were interchanged; and then came Crang's excruciation.

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Only meanwhile he wants—it was a phrase of his own—to keep all the excruciation for his own private enjoyment.

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Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness.

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To be far off the key is to be in another key, but to smite at a note and muff it is excruciation.

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Related Words

• affliction
• agony
• anguish
• misery
• pain
• persecution
• suffering
• torture