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Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla..

Contortuplicate :: Contortuplicate (a.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory..

Distorted :: Distorted (imp. & p. p.) of Distor.

Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Pretorture :: Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

Converter :: Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture..

Pay :: Pay (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon..

Wryness :: Wryness (n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted..

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture..

Bevel :: Bevel (a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.

Booting :: Booting (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance..

Testudineous :: Testudineous (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

Torta :: Torta (n.) a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process..

Lacerate :: Lacerate (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart..

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

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