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English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɔː(r)tʃə(r)|-ɔː(r)tʃə(r)

Noun

To intentionally force someone to experience agony.
:Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.
:In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
In the Context of The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
:Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!

Translations

Danish:
Finnish:
Greek: {{t|el|βασανιστήρια|n|p|sc=Grek}} (vasanistíria)

German: {{t+|de|Folter|f}}
Norwegian: {{t-|no|tortur|m}}

German: {{t+|de|Folter|f}}

Norwegian: {{t-|no|tortur|m}}

Translations to be checked

: torturo
: tortyr (1-2)

Verb

To intentionally inflict pain or suffering on (someone).
:People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.

Translations

Esperanto: {{t-|eo|torturi|xs=Esperanto}}
Finnish:
German:
Greek: {{t+|el|βασανίζω|sc=Grek}} (vasanízo)

Norwegian:
Romanian: ,
Swedish:

Derived terms

torturer

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French

Verb

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{{form of|Second-person singular imperative|torturer#French|torturer|lang=French}}

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Italian

Noun

torture

de:torture et:torture el:torture fr:torture ko:torture io:torture it:torture hu:torture ja:torture pl:torture ru:torture fi:torture ta:torture te:torture vi:torture zh:torture

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English torture \tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tortured
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. tTorturing.] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torture \Tor"ture\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura,
fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin
to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and
perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort,
Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort,
Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
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Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
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2. 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.
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3. The act or process of torturing.
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Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and
which had recently been declared illegal even by the
servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the
last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay.
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WordNet torture
n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical
pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
[syn: agony, torment]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion,
overrefinement, straining, twisting]
5: the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural
torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torturing]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, excruciate,
rack]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: excruciate, torment]

Moby Dictionary
Procrustean bed , abuse , afflict , aggrieve , agonize , agonizingness ,
agony , ail , anguish , atrocious pain , bed of Procrustes , befoul ,
bewitch , bias , bite , blight , bloody , boot , burn , chafe , claw ,
clawing , color , condemn , confinement , contort , convulse , corrupt ,
cruciation , crucifixion , crucify , curse , cut , damage , defile ,
deprave , desolate , desolateness , desolation , despoil , destroy ,
disadvantage , dismember , dismemberment , disserve , distort ,
distress , do a mischief , do evil , do ill , do wrong , do wrong by ,
doom , draw and quarter , envenom , estrapade , excruciate ,
excruciatingness , excruciation , fester , fret , gall , galleys ,
garble , get into trouble , get one wrong , get wrong , give pain ,
gloss , gnaw , grate , grill , grind , gripe , harass , hard labor , harm ,
harrow , heartbreak , heartsickness , hell , hell upon earth , hex ,
holocaust , horror , hurt , impair , impale , impalement , imprisonment ,
incarceration , infect , inflame , inflict pain , injure , iron heel ,
irritate , jailing , jinx , keelhaul , keelhauling , kill by inches ,
lacerate , laceration , lancinate , lancination , macerate , maim ,
maltreat , mangle , martyr , martyrdom , martyrization , martyrize ,
menace , misapply , misapprehend , miscite , misconceive , misconstrue ,
misdeem , misdirect , misexplain , misexplicate , misexpound ,
misinterpret , misjudge , misquote , misread , misrender , misrepresent ,
misshape , mistake , mistranslate , mistreat , misunderstand , misuse ,
molest , mutilate , nightmare , nip , oppress , outrage , pain , passion ,
penal servitude , persecute , persecution , pervert , picket ,
picketing , pierce , pinch , play havoc with , play hob with , poison ,
pollute , prejudice , prick , prolong the agony , punish , purgatory ,
put to torture , rack , railriding , rankle , rasp , rip , rock pile ,
rub , savage , scarify , scarpines , scathe , screw , slant , smite ,
squeeze , stab , sting , strain , strain the sense , strappado , taint ,
tar and feather , tar-and-feathering , the gantlet , threaten ,
thumbscrew , torment , tormentingness , torturousness , try , tweak ,
twist , twist the words , varnish , violate , warp , wheel , wind , wound ,
wreak havoc on , wrench , wring , wrong

TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates. 2. This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable offence. 2 Tyler, 380. Vide Question.