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AQ

I cannot pretend it’s a frequently asked question, but at least it’s an asked question. The author of Things I tripped over on my way to the internet asks, in response to a totally unrelated link of mine that somehow mentioned the word “excruciated”:

I just have one question: Is “excruciated” a word?

The answer: yes, it’s the past form of excruciate, meaning inflicting pain upon or torture. In the context, “She might have been spared a lifetime of being polite but bored, bewildered, and sometimes excruciated while listening to music”, it’s used in the passive voice—meaning, this woman was inflected pain upon by her not being able to perceive music.

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