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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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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