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torturing

English

  1. 🔊 extremely painful
  2. 🔊 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”

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