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Definition of torture

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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..

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

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

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

Cruciation :: Cruciation (n.) The act of torturing; torture; torment.

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

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..

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

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

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

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints..

Torturingly :: Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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