torture
[verb]
Synonyms:
- torment, afflict, crucify, distress, persecute, put on the rack, rack
[noun]
Synonyms:
- agony, anguish, distress, pain, persecution, suffering, torment

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Related Idioms: put on the rack, put to torture
Related Words: oppress, persecute, wrong, hurt, wound, maim, mangle, mutilate

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I. tor‧ture¹ /ˈtɔːtʃə $ ˈtɔːrtʃər/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus 'twisted', from torquere; ⇒ torque]

1. an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel:
He died after five days of excruciating torture.

2. severe physical or mental suffering:
The waiting must be torture for you.

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II. torture² verb [transitive]

1. to deliberately hurt someone in order to force them to give you information, to punish them, or to be cruel:
Political opponents of the regime may be tortured.

2. if a feeling or knowledge tortures you, it makes you suffer a lot mentally Synonym : torment:
Rachel sat alone for hours at home, tortured by jealousy.
—torturer noun [countable]

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torture
noun
ADJ. brutal | systematic | mental, physical
VERB + TORTURE inflict | suffer
TORTURE + NOUN camp, chamber, room | victim

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torture
verb
ADV. badly, brutally, severely | routinely The prisoners were routinely tortured.
PHRASES torture sb to death

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