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Word Meanings - EXCRUCIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman. (more info) excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment.

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  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • CROSSJACK
    The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • TORMENTFUL
    Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • 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
  • EXCRUCIATE
    Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman. (more info) excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • CROSSGRAINED
    1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • HEARTEN
    1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
  • TORTURINGLY
    So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • PIGEON-HEARTED
    Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

 

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