excruciateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɛkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/, /ɪkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/

動詞

excruciate (third-person singular simple present excruciates, present participle excruciating, simple past and past participle excruciated)

1. (transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.

   Synonyms: torment, torture; see also Thesaurus:hurt

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     But this it is that doth excruciate
     The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
     To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
     And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
     Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]

関連する語

• excruciating

形容詞

excruciate (comparative more excruciate, superlative most excruciate)

1. (obsolete) Excruciated; tortured.
   • 1616, George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey

     And here my heart long time excruciate
     Amongst the leaves I rested all that night.