What is the meaning of torture?

noun

• Extreme mental distress.
  • synonyms: anguish, torment
• Unbearable physical pain.
  • synonyms: torment
• Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain.
  • usage: "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
  • synonyms: agony, torment
• The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
  • synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting
• 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.
  • usage: "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
  • synonyms: torturing

verb

• Torment emotionally or mentally.
  • synonyms: torment, excruciate, rack
• Subject to torture.
  • usage: "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
  • synonyms: excruciate, torment