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

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

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..

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

Torturer :: Torturer (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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