Synonym: agonize, distress, harrow, inflame, pain, persecute, plague, torment. Similar words: torturous, aperture, nurture, overture, departure, departure time, for the future, horticulture. Meaning: ['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.
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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31 The rush-hour traffic was sheer torture as usual.
32 The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.
33 He claims his confession was extracted under torture.
34 The waiting must be torture for you.
35 No torture would make him talk.
36 She was repeatedly subjected to torture.
37 They used torture to extract information about their families.
38 They have alleged that acts of genocide and torture were carried out.
39 Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.
40 There are consistent reports of electrical torture being practised on inmates.
41 The police used torture to extort a confession from him.
42 We all accept that it is wrong to torture people.
43 He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her.
44 The idea of being separated from him, even for a few hours, was torture.
45 2,000 prisoners died as a result of torture and maltreatment.
46 The Inquisition of the Medieval Ages devised many demoniac means of torture.
47 It is my understanding that this torture has been going on for many years.
48 Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her.
49 The report says there is widespread and routine torture of political prisoners in the country.
50 The report says torture was widespread,(www.Sentencedict.com) as were extra-judicial executions by government troops.
51 Torture is still being used to intimidate detainees.
52 The torture is purely intimidatory, not to extract information.
53 All this constitutes torture under international law.
54 Stories of torture, murder and mass rape are widespread.
55 Also patron of poverty and torture victims.
56 I told them I was a torture victim.
57 They deny allegations that torture and ill-treatment are widespread.
58 The torture involved repeated beatings and electric shock treatment.
59 I hope you suffer torture until you die.
60 Also patron of shepherdesses and torture victims.
More similar words: torturous, aperture, nurture, overture, departure, departure time, for the future, horticulture, perturb, overturn, fortunate, opportune, fortuitous, importune, unfortunate, fortunately, perturbation, inopportune, opportunist, opportunity, fortuitously, imperturbable, unfortunately, fortune cookie, tort, couture, mature, nature, future, pasture.