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excruciable

excruciable adjective: liable to torment.

Adjective

excruciable (comparative more excruciable, superlative most excruciable)

  1. (archaic) Liable to torment.
    • With the same heroic devotion with which they went forth to fight the battles of their country, firmly clinging to the dear old flag, they died the most excruciable deaths possible for rebel tyrants to inflict.1872, Amos Stevens Billingsley, From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War

Forms of excruciable

comparativemore excruciable
superlativemost excruciable

Origin of excruciable

Latin excruciabilis (“deserving of torture”).

Questions about excruciable

What does excruciable mean?
Excruciable means liable to torment.
What part of speech is excruciable?
Excruciable is an adjective.

Words near excruciable in the dictionary

  1. excretorily
  2. excretors
  3. excretory
  4. excretory system
  5. excretum
  6. excruciable
  7. excruciate
  8. excruciated
  9. excruciates
  10. excruciateth
  11. excruciating

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