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

Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..

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..

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

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

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..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

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

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

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..

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

Torturous :: Torturous (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, torture..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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