All excruciate synonyms

verb excruciate

• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
• agonise — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
• anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• smite — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.