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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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