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Meaning of torture
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
torture
n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: {anguish}, {torment},
{torture}]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: {torture}, {torment}]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn:
{agony}, {torment}, {torture}]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something
it was not intended to mean [syn: {distortion},
{overrefinement}, {straining}, {torture}, {twisting}]
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; "it required unnatural
torturing to extract a confession" [syn: {torture},
{torturing}]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: {torment}, {torture},
{excruciate}, {rack}]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: {torture}, {excruciate},
{torment}]
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