- (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
- (v.t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
- (v.t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
- (v.t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
- (v.t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
- (n.) The act or process of torturing.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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