Torture |
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. |
n. |
Torture |
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. |
n. |
Torture |
The act or process of torturing. |
n. |
Torture |
To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. |
v. t. |
Torture |
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. |
v. t. |
Torture |
To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. |
v. t. |
Torture |
To keep on the stretch, as a bow. |
v. t. |