excruciate

From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- +‎ cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.ˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/, /ɪk.ˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/

excruciate (third-person singular simple present excruciates, present participle excruciating, simple past and past participle excruciated)

1. (transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     But this it is that doth excruciate
     The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
     To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
     And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
     Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]

• excruciating

excruciate (comparative more excruciate, superlative most excruciate)

1. (obsolete) Excruciated; tortured.
   • 1616, George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey

     And here my heart long time excruciate
     Amongst the leaves I rested all that night.

excruciāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of excruciō