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Definition of torture

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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..

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Torturous :: Torturous (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, torture..

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

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

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

Discruciate :: Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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