torture

torture is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
2. noun. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
3. noun. The act or process of torturing.
4. transitive verb. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
5. transitive verb. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
6. transitive verb. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
7. transitive verb. To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
8. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: torturing

9. noun. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

   Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

10. noun. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

    "an agony of doubt"

    "the torments of the damned"

    Synonyms: agony, torment

11. noun. extreme mental distress

    Synonyms: anguish, torment

12. noun. unbearable physical pain

    Synonyms: torment

13. verb. subject to torture

    "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

    Synonyms: excruciate, torment

14. verb. torment emotionally or mentally

    Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment

Synonyms

torturing, distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting, agony, torment, anguish, excruciate, rack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in torture:

trouter, tutorer

Common word forms

tortured, torturer, tortures, torturing

Words from these letters

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