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

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person..

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

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