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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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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