Word Meanings - EXCRUCIATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

. Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." V. Knox. "Excruciating fears." Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to EXCRUCIATING)

• 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
• 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.
• RACKETY
  Making a tumultuous noise.
• TORTURINGLY
  So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• TORTUROUS
  Involving, or pertaining to, torture. "The torturous crucifixion." I. Disraeli.
• FEARSOME
  . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor (more info) 1. Frightful; causing fear "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott
• RACK-RENTER
  1. One who is subjected to playing rack-rent. 2. One who exacts rack-rent.
• RACKET-TAIL
  Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket- shaped.
• RACKWORK
  Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.
• RACKER
  1. One who racks. 2. A horse that has a racking gait.
• TORTURABLE
  Capable of being tortured.
• RACKETT
  An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
• RACK-RENT
  A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.
• EXCRUCIATING
  . Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." V. Knox. "Excruciating fears." Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.
• RACKET-TAILED
  Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
• RACK
  A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. 3. That which is extorted; exaction. Sir E. Sandys. Mangle rack. See under Mangle. n. -- Rack block. See def. 1
• RACKAROCK
  A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono- nitrobenzene.
• TORTURER
  One who tortures; a tormentor.
• RACKTAIL
  An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• BACHARACH; BACKARACK
  A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• HAYRACK
  A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
• THRACKSCAT
  Metal still in the mine.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• ARRACK
  A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.