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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Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..
Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..
Torturer :: Torturer (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.
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..
Torturingly :: Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.
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..
Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
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.
Cruciate :: Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
Excruciate :: Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.
Torturable :: Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.
Torture :: Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.
Pine :: Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
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