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TORTURE

Definition:

1. [noun] extreme mental distress
   Synonyms: anguish, torment
   
   
2. [noun] unbearable physical pain
   Synonyms: torment
   
   
3. [noun] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
   Synonyms: agony, torment
   
   
4. [noun] the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
   Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting
   
   
5. [noun] the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
   Synonyms: torturing
   
   
6. [verb] torment emotionally or mentally
   Synonyms: torment, excruciate, rack
   
   
7. [verb] subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
   Synonyms: excruciate, torment
   
   

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Related Words:

• rack
• martyr, martyrize, martyrise
• strappado
• crucifixion, excruciation
• dismemberment, taking apart

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