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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..

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.

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

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

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

Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

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

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..

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

Torment :: Torment (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind..

Excruciate :: Excruciate (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body..

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

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind..

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

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

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..

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