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Noun torture has 5 senses
- anguish, torment, torture - extreme mental distress
--1 is a kind of distress, hurt, suffering
- torture, torment - unbearable physical pain
--2 is a kind of pain, hurting
- agony, torment, torture - intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
--3 is a kind of suffering, hurt
- distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
--4 is a kind of falsification, misrepresentaation
- torture, torturing - the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
--5 is a kind of persecution
--5 has particulars:
Verb torture has 2 senses
- torment, torture, excruciate, rack - torment emotionally or mentally
--1 is one way to pain, anguish, hurt
Sample sentence:
The bad news will torture him
- torture, excruciate, torment - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
--2 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:
They want to torture the prisoners
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