torture |
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(1) - Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow. (2) - Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. (3) - Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. (4) - Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. (5) - Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing. (6) - Torture (n.) 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. (7) - Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. |