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1. (noun) anguish, torment, torture
extreme mental distress

2. (noun) torture, torment
unbearable physical pain

3. (noun) agony, torment, torture
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

4. (noun) distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

5. (verb) torture, torturing
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"

6. (verb) torment, torture, excruciate, rack
torment emotionally or mentally

7. (verb) torture, excruciate, torment
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

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Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) Torture
extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind

2. (noun) Torture
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

3. (noun) Torture
the act or process of torturing

4. (verb) Torture
to put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex

5. (verb) Torture
to punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person

6. (verb) Torture
to wrest from the proper meaning; to distort

7. (verb) Torture
to keep on the stretch, as a bow

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