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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Excruciate :: Excruciate (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body..

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

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..

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

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

Self-torture :: Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

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

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

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

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

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

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