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Excruciate :: Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.

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

Agonize :: Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind..

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

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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

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..

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..

Pine :: Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

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

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