excruciating
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
-ate
-ing
cruc
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
excruciating
causing intense physical or mental pain; agonizing (in agony or great pain)
极痛苦的, 折磨人的
Dissection of excruciating
excruciating = ex- (intensifier) + cruc (cross; extended further to mean experience the pain when a body is nailed to a cross) + i + ate (do; make; cause) + remove e + -ing (suffix for verb in present participle form);
excruciating = causing extreme pain just like nailing your body to a cross
Now Repeat my Dissection
excruciating = causing extreme pain just like nailing your body to a cross
Important roots for this word:
ex-
-ate
-ing
cruc
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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