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Meaning of word torture from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

torture verb

Meaning : Torment emotionally or mentally.

Synonyms : excruciate, rack, torment

Meaning : Subject to torture.

Example : The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible.

Synonyms : excruciate, torment

torture noun

Meaning : Extreme mental distress.

Synonyms : anguish, torment

Meaning : Unbearable physical pain.

Synonyms : torment

Meaning : Intense feelings of suffering. Acute mental or physical pain.

Example : An agony of doubt.
The torments of the damned.

Synonyms : agony, torment

Meaning : The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

Synonyms : distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

Meaning : 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.

Example : It required unnatural torturing to extract a confession.

Synonyms : torturing

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