Definition of Torture

Noun

  • the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
    "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
  • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  • intense feelings of suffering
    acute mental or physical pain
    "an agony of doubt"
    "the torments of the damned"
  • unbearable physical pain
  • extreme mental distress

Verb

  • subject to torture
    "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
  • torment emotionally or mentally
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Unscramble torture

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