Torture

Noun

 * 1) Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing 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.
 * People confess to anything under torture.
 * 1)  The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
 * Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!

Verb

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

Adjectives for Torture
excruciating; bitter; mental; lingering; physical everlasting; exquisite; measured; hideous endless; unrepressed; horrible; innate  slow; consuming; supreme; secret; utmost; tightening; eternal; memorable; rational; intense; untold; subtle; curdling; cruel; abominable;  righteous;  fiendish; burning; showy; grating.

Verbs for Torture
avert—; contrive—; devise—; endure—; enforce—; palliate—; release from—; submit to—; subject to—; —benumbs; —convulses; —crucifies; —harrows; —lingers; —racks.

Adverbs for Torture
excruciatingly; bitterly; lingeringly; physically; hideously; horribly; secretly; irrationally; exquisitely; barbarically; grotesquely.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From tortura: <  tortus:, past participle of torquere:.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: تعزيب
 * Belarusian: катаванне
 * Bulgarian: мъчение
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 煎熬, 折磨
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: kínzás
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, usually plural: tortury
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: тортури


 * Czech:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:


 * : torturo
 * : tortyr (1-2)

Verb

 * Arabic: عزّب
 * Catalan: torturar
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: (vasanízo)
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Swedish:

Derived terms

 * torturer

Noun

 * 1) torture
 * With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.
 * With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

Noun
torture



Anagrams

 * rotture, rutterò, ruttore