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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture..

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

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..

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..

Torturable :: Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.

Pang :: Pang (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

Pretorture :: Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.

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

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