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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
- 1noun
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The act or process of torturing.
- 4transitive verb
To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
- 5transitive verb
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
- 6transitive verb
To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
- 7transitive verb
To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
- 8noun
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"
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- 9noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 10noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"
"the torments of the damned"
- 11noun
extreme mental distress
- 12noun
unbearable physical pain
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- 13verb
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
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- 14verb
torment emotionally or mentally
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