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.