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: agonising, agonizing, torturesome, torturing, torturous, harrowing, excruciating
Definition: extremely painful