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

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

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

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; 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..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..

Procrustean :: Procrustean (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes..

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

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

Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Excruciate :: Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.

Self-torture :: Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

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