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Question :: Question (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture..

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

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

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

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

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..

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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

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

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

Martyrization :: Martyrization (n.) Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

Tortured :: Tortured (imp. & p. p.) of Tortur.

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..

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

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Agonize :: Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

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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