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Torture Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Torture? [n] the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" [n] the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [n] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [n] extreme mental distress [n] unbearable physical pain [v] subject to torture [v] torment emotionally or mentally Synonyms \| Synonyms for Torture: agony \| anguish \| distortion \| excruciate \| excruciate \| overrefinement \| rack \| straining \| torment \| torment \| torment \| torment \| torturing \| twisting Related Terms \| Find terms related to Torture: See Also \| anguish \| crucifixion \| dismemberment \| distress \| excruciation \| falsification \| hurt \| hurt \| hurting \| injure \| martyr \| martyrise \| martyrize \| misrepresentaation \| pain \| pain \| persecution \| rack \| strappado \| suffering \| taking apart \| wound Torture In Webster's Dictionary \Tor"ture\, n. [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. {Contort}, {Distort}, {Extort}, {Retort}, {Tart}, n., {Torch}, {Torment}, {Tortion}, {Tort}, {Trope.}] 1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton. 2. 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. The act or process of torturing. Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640. --Macaulay. \Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} (?; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Torturing.}] [Cf. F. Torturer. ] 1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. 2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. --Shak. 3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar. Taylor. 4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.] The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.

Torture Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Torture?

[n] the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
[n] the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
[n] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
[n] extreme mental distress
[n] unbearable physical pain
[v] subject to torture
[v] torment emotionally or mentally

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Torture In Webster's Dictionary

\Tor"ture\, n. [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum,
to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to
turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E.
queer. Cf. {Contort}, {Distort}, {Extort}, {Retort}, {Tart},
n., {Torch}, {Torment}, {Tortion}, {Tort}, {Trope.}]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
   torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.

         Ghastly spasm or racking torture.     --Milton.

2. 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. The act or process of torturing.

         Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal,
         and which had recently been declared illegal even by
         the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for
         the last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
                                               --Macaulay.


\Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} (?; 135); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Torturing.}] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
   an accused person. --Shak.

3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
   Taylor.

4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]

         The bow tortureth the string.         --Bacon.

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