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

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

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

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

Martyrdom :: Martyrdom (n.) Affliction; torment; torture.

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

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

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

Procrustean :: Procrustean (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes..

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

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

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

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..

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

Fire :: Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

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..

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

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