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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Pretorture :: Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.

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