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torture
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Noun
  • 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
    • it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
  • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  • intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
    • an agony of doubt
    • the torments of the damned
  • unbearable physical pain
  • extreme mental distress
Verb
  • subject to torture
    • The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
  • torment emotionally or mentally
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