Word: Torture
How to pronounce: ˈtɔːʧə
Noun
Definitions:
1. The action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
Example sentences: "The torture of political prisoners"
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Inflict severe pain or suffering on.
Example sentences: "Most of the victims had been brutally tortured"
Synonyms:
torment
plague
rack
martyrdom
curse
excruciate
agonize
bedevil
persecute
excruciating
ordeal
misery
waterboarding
affliction
tribulation
agony
anguish
distress
murder
Derivations:
torturing
tortured
torturous
torturer
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Torture in Other Languages...
Spanish: Tortura
German: Folter
French: Torture
Italian: Tortura
Turkish: Işkence
