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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
excruciate .
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Examples
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A man tells you, 'if you can speer it, to send a beerer with a bottle of bare,' and the clergyman excruciates you by praying in church, 'Speer us, good Lord.'
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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It hurt him like a hidden, unmentioned ingrowing toe nail that cuts and bleeds and excruciates the fleet member it is meant to protect.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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I can't deny having streaks of conceit, but I know enough about myself to make my rational moments bid me keep in the background, and it excruciates me to be set up on a pinnacle.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882
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I can't deny having streaks of conceit, but I _know_ enough about myself to make my rational moments bid me keep in the background, and it excruciates me to be set up on a pinnacle.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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Her soubrette, a pretty and chattering Swiss, whose republican virtue had been corrupted by Paris, as Rome by Corinth, endeavours to divert Mer lady's ennui: she excruciates her beautiful mistress with tattle about the admiration of
The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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"O no, sir, his whole conduct excruciates all the tender sentiments of the soul; he is so utterly devoid of heroism, refinement, and all the softer sensations of the mind."
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