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

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

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

Excruciate :: Excruciate (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body..

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

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

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

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

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

Torment :: Torment (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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 (n.) The act or process of torturing.

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

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

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