excruciation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
excruciation
    n 1: a state of acute pain [syn: {agony}, {suffering},
         {excruciation}]
    2: the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
       [syn: {crucifixion}, {excruciation}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excruciation \Ex*cru`ci*a"tion\n. [L. excruciatio.]
   The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being
   thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. --Feltham.
   [1913 Webster]
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