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Definition of Excruciation
1. Noun. A state of acute pain.
Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain
Specialized synonyms: Throe, Passion, Passion Of Christ
Derivative terms: Agonal, Agonise, Agonise, Agonist, Agonize, Excruciate, Excruciate, Suffer, Suffer
2. Noun. The infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering.
Generic synonyms: Torture, Torturing
Derivative terms: Crucify, Excruciate
Definition of Excruciation
1. n. The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.
Definition of Excruciation
1. Noun. Some excruciating pain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excruciation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excruciation
Literary usage of Excruciation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"Saleh. his nerves sawed to excruciation by that host of staring eyes, calm,
emotionless faces, and silent immovable ligures, felt as though he would ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... placid, English orders themselves, in their country houses, on their lawns,
with possibilities of woe and excruciation there also; the routes of travel, ..."
3. The Bookman (1908)
"i//ia last excruciation of his ailment, vanishes. The Most Reverend Father in
God stands blinking for recognition. Pained at the nonfulfillment of this ..."
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