Torture - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- unbearable physical pain (syn: torment)
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain (syn: agony, torment)
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean (syn: distortion, straining, twisting)
- 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
verb
- subject to torture (syn: excruciate, torment)
Extra examples
Waiting is just torture for me.
Listening to him can be torture.
He confessed under torture.
It was sheer torture to listen to her sing.
He is tortured with headaches.
He died after five days of excruciating torture.
The waiting must be torture for you.
Political opponents of the regime may be tortured.
Rachel sat alone for hours at home, tortured by jealousy.
...although once common, torture is now an abomination to the civilized peoples of the earth...
...horrific images of torture that shocked the conscience of the world...
...the government subjected the insurgents to the most inhuman torture imaginable...
...he generally likened a root canal to some horrible form of torture...
Don't torture yourself over the mistake.
...the people universally feared the tyrant, who was notorious for his frequent use of torture...
Word forms
I/you/we/they: torture
he/she/it: tortures
present participle: torturing
past tense: tortured
past participle: tortured
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