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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person..

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

Tortured :: Tortured (imp. & p. p.) of Tortur.

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

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

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

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

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

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..

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

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

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

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

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

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

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

Martyrization :: Martyrization (n.) Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..

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..

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