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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91 Allegations of extrajudicial execution and torture, one death in custody under torture, continue unabated.
92 He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country's paramilitary forces on torture techniques.
93 Barbara was subjected to heinous torture, yet reftised to disavow her faith.
94 There was evidence that despite torture and execution, the clergy at the cathedral had managed to conceal it.
95 So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
96 New capital crimes would include the use of firearms; hostage-taking; torture; sale of drugs to minors and racketeering.
97 In every instance, rituals of humiliation, of slow torture, of unspeakable bestiality accompanied the killings.
98 No, actually, remember that has been moved down to uh, to the uh, torture chamber.
99 Some of the bodies showed signs of torture and in many cases personal documents had been removed to prevent identification.
100 The Braves were more methodical but just as thorough, the baseball version of water torture.
101 But torture was applied and Fian confessed, only to retract his confession later.
102 A quick end, rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall.
103 It was slow, unbearable torture that would drive any man insane.
104 In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture.
105 Amnesty International opposes abuses by opposition groups - hostage taking, torture and killing of prisoners and other arbitrary killings.
106 Mum was subjected to water torture for three weeks running.
107 Torture King places a circular fluorescent light bulb on his head and touches an open electrical circuit.
108 Torture methods taught in the 1983 manual include stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded.
109 Torture is also routine in criminal investigations, even for the most petty offense.
109 Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
110 Under torture he admitted to some of the charges, vague though they were, but later withdrew.
111 Men with potential were sent to torture school and underwent a process of desensitisation.
112 After a day of torture, when they wanted to get some sleep, they would cut the prisoners' tongues out.
113 In the 1980s Amnesty International reports listed several Arab socialist countries as sites of torture and killing.
114 It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees.
115 A properly working Macintosh is a marvel, but a Macintosh with an undiagnosed software problem is slow torture.
116 Slaughter and torture declared by judges as the law lurk in the shadows of our history.
117 Anticipated in December and enjoyed in January, February citrus can torture the souls of tree owners.
118 For those who knew, nurtured and loved the children involved, it must be nothing short of emotional torture.
119 The extradition attempts on charges of obstruction of justice failed primarily because of allegations of the torture of witnesses.
120 Also patron of torture victims; he is invoked against foot trouble.
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