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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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Pine :: Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

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

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

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..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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