crucio

cruciō āvī, ātus, āre

crux, to put to the rack , torture, torment : fame cruciari: tribunos cruciando occidit, L.: cum cruciabere Sanguine serpentis, O.—Fig., to afflict, grieve, torment : graviter adulescentulum, T.: se: crucior miser, am on the rack , T.: crucior bolum mihi ereptum, T.