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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

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

Tortured :: Tortured (imp. & p. p.) of Tortur.

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

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

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

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

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; 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 (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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..

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