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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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.) The act or process of torturing.

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

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

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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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