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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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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