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

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

Tormentise :: Tormentise (n.) Torture; torment.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Torturable :: Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.

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

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

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