excruciate

• “Fenway Park is our, to coin a word, excruciate -- something anyone who witnessed those extra-inning classics against the Yankees will instantly understand.”

  Newsweek: Starr Gazing: The Curse Is Dead

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

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864

• “Even at this hour the swart Savoyard (_filius nullius_) issues forth on his diurnal pilgrimage, "remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," to excruciate on his superannuated hurdy-gurdy that sublime melody, "the hundred and seventh psalm," or the plaintive sweetness of "Isabel," perhaps speculating on a breakfast for himself and Pug, somewhere between Knightsbridge and Old Brentford.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

• “After it might have been an hour of this excruciate ecstasy the”

  Chivalry

• “After it might have been an hour of this excruciate ecstasy the Countess came to Rosamund's bed.”

  Chivalry

• “Her presence used to excruciate Osborne; but go she would upon all parties of pleasure on which she heard her young friends were bent.”

  XXIX. Brussels

• “The feeling of languor [566], which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate.”

  Life of Johnson

• “Nay, that is a cruel religion, which would excruciate hereafter those who enjoy now.”

  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida

• “Ignorance, density, total imbecility, is better; I would rather any day of my life sit and carve for guests -- the grossest of human trials -- a detestable dinner, than be doomed to hear some wretched fellow -- and you hear the old as well as the young -- excruciate feelings which, where they exist, cannot but be exquisitely delicate.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

• “At times he would take it to the room behind Annie's shop, at times to the hut occupied by Hector of the Stags: there he would not excruciate his host at least, and Rob of the Angels would endure anything for his chief.”

  What's Mine's Mine — Complete

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