excruciate

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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

"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

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

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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