excruciate
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"And your bilious eyes and eyelids full of crows' feet, and the gout and the rheumatism which excruciate you?—those horrid spiders which are weaving their threads in the muscles of your calves?"
From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William
"You didn't excruciate my wrist so like time!" groaned Bill.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
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 Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"He will be vulgarly stuck up, and excruciate me with every French word he attempts to pronounce."
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
“Zama,” a brief, indelible novel by the Argentinean writer Antonio Di Benedetto, is a work of waiting—of enforced lassitude, excruciated anticipation, and final frustration.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
The speaker is Tithonus himself, in love with Dawn but excruciated to be held captive to yet another day.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016
I must leave off writing; I am excruciated with the toothache, which has tormented me without respite all day.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
Thus the Duke of Somerset goes to church, and finds an ignorant generation reposed in a paradise of illusions, while its more learned and thoughtful progeny is excruciated with doubt.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
He was excruciated with her burlesque, tried to drag her to her feet, but he had only one hand and he could not manage her.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry
Plus, this excruciating level of oversight likely isn’t personal, says Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and the author of “Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Unlike many of her friends, hers were extremely heavy and she experienced excruciating pain.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
It was “an excruciating experience,” one person present said, and a signal how little influence America’s closest allies, even traveling as a collective, exerted with the administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The three reached an excruciating decision: They had to make their way outside and seek help before additional debris crushed them or cut off any escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
There was a gruesome and excruciating silence that threatened to endure forever.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
