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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181 I should have been spared the torture of separation from my father during his last moments....
182 The torture of not knowing what had happened to Chesarynth was sharpened by the realization that maybe he already knew.
183 The security chief is involved in a court case in which some of his subordinates have been convicted of torture.
184 So is the rape and torture of prisoners by prisoners.
185 The prisoners in Mozdok are rumoured to suffer worse torture than in those in Chernokozovo.
186 He suffers from Reynault's disease, his feet crippled from torture.
187 Amnesty International performs a similar function with respect to the treatment of political detainees and the international prohibition of torture.
188 Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads.
189 Everything within her was reaching out to him - to be denied now would be a torture more than she could bear.
190 She was spared further abuse - possibly torture - only after international outrage put pressure on the regime for her release.
191 On one occasion, Valenzuela arrived in a torture room to find Gallardo hanging by handcuffs from a hook and whimpering.
192 He loudly opposes torture while his Republican colleagues prevaricate.
193 He is worryingly as to what constitutes torture.
194 He endured horrific torture[sentencedict.com], but he is finally free.
195 Many died under torture, others committed suicide.
196 Learning— something she had always loved — became a torture.
197 In CNC heavy cutting servo system, mechanical drive system has a torture feedback on electrical speed-adjustment system, thus it's possible to generate the mechanical resonance.
198 The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture.
199 The confession was a formality,(http://sentencedict.com/torture.html) though the torture was real.
200 Indeed, there was the torture and murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, in a 1964 street attack.
201 Arbour cited China for its use of the death penalty and said the United States' war on terror was eroding the worldwide ban on torture.
202 I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared.
203 Tine says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon should ask President Wade to reverse his decision because it contravenes the international convention against torture.
204 The victim's sister guardedly backed the decision, saying "We hope this torture [for the family] achieves something.
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.