Main entry: torture, torturing
Definition: 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
Usage: it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Main entry: twisting, torture, straining, distortion, overrefinement
Definition: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Main entry: torment, torture, agony
Definition: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Usage: an agony of doubt; the torments of the damned
Main entry: torment, torture, anguish
Definition: extreme mental distress
Definition: unbearable physical pain
Main entry: torment, torture, excruciate
Definition: subject to torture
Usage: The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
Main entry: excruciate, torment, torture, rack
Definition: torment emotionally or mentally