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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Martyrization :: Martyrization (n.) Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture..

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

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