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

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind..

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

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..

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Torturingly :: Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.

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

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