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

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

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

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..

Agonize :: Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

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

Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

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..

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..

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

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

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

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

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

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to 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..

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

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

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