torture
Nouns
- (n) extreme mental distress anguish, torment,
- (n) unbearable physical pain torment,
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(n) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- an agony of doubt
- the torments of the damned
- (n) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean overrefinement, twisting, straining, distortion,
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(n) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Verbs
- (v) torment emotionally or mentally excruciate, torment, rack,
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(v) subject to torture
- The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible