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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.

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

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..

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