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excruciate

🇬🇧 UK/iks'kru:ʃieit/🇺🇸 US
GRE

Definitions

v.

To inflict intense physical pain or mental distress on someone; to torture.

使极度痛苦,折磨

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
exout of, former
+
cruccross, torture
+
iateto make, having
=excruciate

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The intense pain seemed to excruciate his entire body as he struggled to recover.

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