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
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