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Pang :: Pang (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to 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 (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Lacerate :: Lacerate (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fire :: Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

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