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

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..

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

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..

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

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

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

Strapper :: Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.

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