EXCRUCIATED Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

excruciated

verb

past tense of excruciate

as in plagued

to cause persistent suffering to she has long been excruciated by an undiagnosed pain in her knee

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Jackson broke his foot last training camp when a teammate stepped on it during practice, and that injury plagued him all of 2025, and required an offseason procedure that kept him sidelined all OTAs and minicamp.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
As in the last two years, this year’s Tour is plagued by doping.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

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The Chinese government denies the Uyghurs have been or are being persecuted.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
As a senator, Marco Rubio was a strong supporter of the bureau and human rights broadly, once arguing from the Senate floor that safeguarding the freedoms of gay men who were persecuted in Chechnya — and all people — was in the national interest.

— Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 17 July 2026

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Dandara dos Santos was tortured and beaten to death by a group of twelve people, who eventually tossed her body in a wheelbarrow, shot her, and posted a video of the crime on social media.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Yes, Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a White woman accused him of making an advance toward her.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of tortured

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The species is now endangered, extinct on the Australian mainland for three thousand years and besieged on the island that is its last refuge.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The sidebar will open with Netflix’s Below, from creator Jesse McKeown, a six-part supernatural thriller that centers on a seaside town Newfoundland besieged by a sea creature and stars Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton and Josh Hartnett.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026

Definition of besieged

Verb

Does this explain why my dad told me we were cursed growing up?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
Humans are cursed to become inured to anything that persists long enough, and even the staggering beauty of a total solar eclipse may begin to fade after, say, an hour.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

Definition of cursed

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