Definition of excruciation Excruciation
ex•cru•ci•a•tion
We found 5 definitions of excruciation from 4 different sources.
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What does excruciation mean?
WordNet
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| excruciation - a state of acute pain | ||
| agony, suffering | ||
| hurting, pain a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" | ||
| throe severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth" | ||
| excruciation - the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | ||
| crucifixion | ||
| torturing, torture the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- excruciation (Noun)
Some excruciating pain.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- excruciation (n.)
The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.
Part of speech
🔤- excruciation, noun, singular of excruciations.
