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

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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