Torture Synonyms & Definitions

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• TortureDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
2. (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
3. (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
4. (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
5. (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
6. (n.) The act or process of torturing.
7. (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.

• TorturerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.