The pain was so excruciating I couldn't even have a blanket touch my skin. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Verb (used with object), : The headache excruciated him. From Dictionary.com.
"You didn't excruciate my wrist so like time!" groaned Bill. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Fenway Park is our, to coin a word, excruciate -- something anyone who witnessed those extra-inning classics against the Yankees will instantly understand. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Curse Is Dead] Reference
Her presence used to excruciate Osborne; but go she would upon all parties of pleasure on which she heard her young friends were bent. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
The circumstances were combined by so subtle a cruelty that every stroke which did not excruciate the sense should wound and lacerate the sentiments and affections of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
'Ignorance, density, total imbecility, is better; I would rather any day of my life sit and carve for guests -- the grossest of human trials -- a detestable dinner, than be doomed to hear some wretched fellow -- and you hear the old as well as the young -- excruciate feelings which, where they exist, cannot but be exquisitely delicate. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
A very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
But this it is that doth excruciate. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference
Wherewith he may excruciate thy soul. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference
May still excruciate his tormented thoughts!. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference
"And your bilious eyes and eyelids full of crows 'feet, and the gout and the rheumatism which excruciate you?. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches] Reference
"Ah, hang him, -- a low fellow, who pins all his happiness to the skirts of the quality, is proud of being despised, and that which would excruciate the vanity of others only flatters his. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
'Do not excruciate me so. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
Came to the ships, but so excruciate. From Wordnik.com. [Tenth Book] Reference
Not after one sort there excruciate all. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Tho they excruciate me wich «. From Wordnik.com. [The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw ...] Reference
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