excruciate

Other forms of excruciate

past tense

excruciated·

present participle

excruciating·

third person

excruciates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excruciate

What does excruciate mean?

excruciate means "torment emotionally or mentally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excruciate?

excruciate has 4 syllables: ex-cru-ci-ate. The stress falls on "cru".

What is another word for excruciate?

Close synonyms include torment, torture, rack, torture, torment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excruciate a common word?

excruciate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.