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torture

English

  1. 🔊 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
    “it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession”
  2. 🔊 unbearable physical pain
  3. 🔊 intense feelings of suffering
    “an agony of doubt”
  4. 🔊 extreme mental distress
  5. 🔊 the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  6. 🔊 subject to torture
    “The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible”
  7. 🔊 torment emotionally or mentally

Spanish

  1. 🔊 torturar to torture

Similar words

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