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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Procrustean :: Procrustean (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes..

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

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

Pang :: Pang (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

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