TORTURE
\tˈɔːt͡ʃə], \tˈɔːtʃə], \t_ˈɔː_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of TORTURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
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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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The act or process of torturing.
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To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
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To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
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To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
By Oddity Software
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
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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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The act or process of torturing.
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To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
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To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
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To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
By Noah Webster.
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The intentional infliction of physical or mental suffering upon an individual or individuals, including the torture of animals.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Agony of mind or body; extreme pain; infliction of pain as a punishment.
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To punish with, or as with, torture; put to the rack.
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Tortured.
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Torturing.
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Torturer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Torturer.
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A putting to the rack or severe pain to extort a confession, or as a punishment: extreme pain: anguish of body or mind.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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