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Sentence count:204+12Posted:2017-02-27Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: agonizedistressharrowinflamepainpersecuteplaguetormentSimilar words: torturousaperturenurtureoverturedeparturedeparture timefor the futurehorticultureMeaning: ['tɔrtʃə(r) /'tɔː-]  n. 1. extreme mental distress 2. unbearable physical pain 3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain 4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean 5. 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. v. 1. torment emotionally or mentally 2. subject to torture. 
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61 What devilish torture had Raimundo dreamed up now?
62 What torture parent's lectures are for children!
63 She's just discovered you have a torture chamber here.
64 Had he betrayed Jean-Pierre under torture?
65 Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members.
66 If the mental torture is always there, the physical hurt and threat is, for most, behind them.
67 There were months of interrogations, torture and repression as the military tightened its grip on the country.
68 These were the rapists and torture masters of the regime, drivers of nails into skulls.
69 In court she gave evidence about her torture, naming the officers involved.
70 Madame de Sevigne telling the story of the poisoner, Madame de Brinvilliers, about to undergo the water torture.
71 Critics were silenced by means of torture and unfair trials.
72 Try to see a given situation as it truly is when not enhanced by the torture inflicted by your imagination.
73 Beccaria's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment.
74 Most of the reported deaths, however, were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations.
75 Amnesty International released another report on the government's use of torture.
76 It seems in some of those countries that political torture and assassination are par for the course.
77 That would suggest that as long as one has the time and the means one can avoid having to use torture.
78 Louis, the son of a bitter shoe executive, a lost Southern belle and a mad sister, a torture.
79 The Administration proposed and the Senate approved a similar understanding in its resolution of ratification of the Convention against Torture.
80 Barbara was subjected to heinous torture,(http://sentencedict.com/torture.html) yet refused to disavow her faith.
81 From Harare come reports of torture centres and door-to-door searches by Zanu thugs.
82 Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.
83 It was very unfair and for Alec Davidson it was torture.
84 The report also stated that physical and psychological torture was routinely used against those in police custody and in prison.
85 Oh, they won't go for anything so crude as physical torture.
86 I have a hard time separating one statement resulting from torture from another and I can not in good conscience do so.
87 They took this to mean a licence to torture and shoot.
88 During the time of torture, such artists as Vera Sienra worked in the language of metaphorical mutilation.
89 Bonds can be as cruel as torture if applied with enough viciousness.
90 The cross on Good Friday in particular reminds us of death, of horror, torture and execution.
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