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Word Meanings - EXCRUCIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.

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  • SORROW
    The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
  • COMFORTLESS
    Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
  • TORMENTFUL
    Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
  • SORROWED
    Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
  • TORTURE
    Etym: 1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. 2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak. 3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. Jar. Taylor. 4. To keep on the stretch, as
  • TORMENTOR
    An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
  • DISCOMFORT
    1. Discouragement. Shak. 2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.
  • DISCOMFORTABLE
    1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
  • AGONY
    1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
  • COMFORTABLY
    In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
  • CONSOLE
    A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height. Any small bracket; also, a console table. Console table, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • TORMENTIL
    A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • PLEASER
    One who pleases or gratifies.
  • COMFORT
    1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this
  • TORMENT
    1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
  • GRIEFFUL
    Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.
  • SUFFERABLE
    1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
  • ELATEROMETER
    See ELATROMETER
  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • MANDELATE
    A salt of mandelic acid.
  • SPHACELATE
    To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • AGRIEF
    In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • CRENELATE
    1. To furnish with crenelles. 2. To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding , a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.
  • INSUFFERABLY
    In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
  • OVERPLEASE
    To please excessively.

 

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