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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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