torture

[Tor·ture]

To torture is to torment or purposefully put someone through intense pain or agony.

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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

Noun
the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

Noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

Noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

Noun
extreme mental distress

Noun
unbearable physical pain

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Verb
subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

Verb
torment emotionally or mentally


n.
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

n.
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.

n.
The act or process of torturing.

v. t.
To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

v. t.
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

v. t.
To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

v. t.
To keep on the stretch, as a bow.


Torture

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.
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.

Torture

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.

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

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Usage Examples

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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Other Usage Examples

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

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