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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tormentise :: Tormentise (n.) Torture; torment.

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

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

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