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1. 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 torture to extract a confession";
   - torturing
    
2. Extreme distress of body or mind
   - anguish, torment
    
3. Unbearable physical pain
   - torment
    
4. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
   - agony, torment
    
5. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
   - distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

1. Torment emotionally or mentally
   - torment, excruciate, rack, wrack
    
2. Subject to torture
   "The sinners will be tortured in Hell, according to the Bible";
   - excruciate, torment

Derived forms: tortured, tortures, torturing

Type of: anguish, distress, falsification, hurt, hurting, injure, misrepresentation, pain, persecution, suffering, wound

Encyclopedia: Torture