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Procrustean :: Procrustean (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes..

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

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind..

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

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..

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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