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torture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | torturing |
| Type of | persecution |
| Has types | picket, piquet, prolonged interrogation, rack, bastinado, sleep deprivation, strapado, strappado, taking apart, sensory deprivation, boot, burning, crucifixion, dismemberment, electric shock, excruciation, falanga, genital torture, judicial torture, kia quen, kittee, nail pulling, nail removal |
torture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting |
| Type of | falsification, misrepresentation |
Examples of torture
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I strongly object to the death penalty, or to punishment that resembles torture.
From the economist.com
Chess can, indeed, be uncannily expressive of life's mystery and mental torture.
From the telegraph.co.uk
My begging them to stop only resulted in laughing and more unbelievable torture.
From the theepochtimes.com
More's career was based on the use of systematic torture to extract confessions.
From the guardian.co.uk
Isn't that the real test before writing a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo on torture?
From the latimes.com
If that is your defense of the legality of torture, it is a profoundly weak one.
From the theatlantic.com
Everybody's against torture, but everybody's for it, depending on circumstances.
From the washingtontimes.com
That includes using a flamethrower to dispense with enemies and a torture scene.
From the usatoday.com
To be fair, determining what constitutes torture is harder than you might think.
From the time.com
- Anguish: extreme mental distress
- Torment: torment emotionally or mentally
- Subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
- Unbearable physical pain
- Agony: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
- Distortion: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 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"
- Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is: This is an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly.
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