Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Liable to torment; worthy to be tormented.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Liable to torment.

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  • adjective archaic Liable to torment.

Etymologies

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Latin excruciabilis.

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Examples

  • That was by far the most foetid, the most rancid, the most excruciable that is, execrable and excruciating joke I have heard in some time.

    PhD Woes Zoe Brain 2007

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