Thesaurus: torture

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1. n. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
2. 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.
3. n. The act or process of torturing.
4. v. t. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
5. v. t. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
6. v. t. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
7. v. t. To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
8. n. extreme mental distress
9. n. unbearable physical pain
10. n. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
11. n. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
12. n. 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