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Wheel :: Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

Torturer :: Torturer (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

Discruciate :: Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.

Pain :: Pain (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him..

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person..

Engine :: Engine (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture..

Pang :: Pang (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

Cruciate :: Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

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..

Tormentise :: Tormentise (n.) Torture; torment.

Fire :: Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

Pine :: Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

Strapper :: Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

Torturable :: Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.

Martyrdom :: Martyrdom (n.) Affliction; torment; torture.

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..

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