excruciate

"He will be vulgarly stuck up, and excruciate me with every French word he attempts to pronounce."

From Magnum Bonum by Charlotte Mary Yonge

"You didn't excruciate my wrist so like time!" groaned Bill.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

"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 William Jesse

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 William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

When the boy with the key of it was swallowed by the waves, the excruciated mother had made a vow that this toy-press of his should never be broken up by violence.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

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 Aaron Walker

‘I have seen Lamb lately—Brown and I were taken by Hunt to Novello’s—there we were devastated and excruciated with bad and repeated puns—Brown don’t want to go again.’

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

For property giant Evergrande, the face of China's real estate woes, an excruciating saga that has dragged on for years culminated on Thursday with court rulings ordering fines and jail terms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The wait for the Dodger Stadium Express or a rideshare pickup, and the slog out of the stadium and along Sunset Boulevard, can be excruciating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Schmidt, an entomologist who specialized in insect defenses, created the sting-pain index which ranks stings from a harmless 0 to an excruciating 4.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Sam experienced one bout of excruciating pain a week after the procedure, a known but uncommon side effect of vasectomies according to Dr Salkeld, but that subsided after a few hours.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

We sit in excruciating silence for nearly half a minute.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen