torture
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈtɔr.tʃɚ/
- Offensive
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tortura
- Jean Franco has written extensively about the torture of women's bodies for political ends.
- torture of prisoners
- arrests and torture
- torture in detention
And so that's that's that's how we get into torture in the War on Terror.
- And so that's that's that's how we get into torture in the War on Terror.
- Sometimes they're being threatened with torture and rape and then murder after that.
- The, the beatings were horrible, but the mind torture was the worst.
- We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst.
- Again, a lot of times torture ends than individual dies.
- To what extent is torture always torture or not?
- And he's using the most inhumane torture to be of God right now.
- It's a sick pain torture game for sick people.
- One has also been convicted of sexual torture, but they murdered men, so it's fine.
- But you again, OK, well, you got rid of torture, but you instituted a drone program.
- And he stops and he turns and he says, well, if there is torture, it's a rogue CIA officer.
- I will accept that torture based on what I have read, which, who knows?
Examples
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In practice, prisoners were often, and routinely, interrogated by means of torture during that period.
Academic text (1991) -
We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst.
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Any comment you want to make about the use of sexual torture by your own military?
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The victims had been subjected to inhumane torture, as the body parts clearly showed.
Fiction book (1994) -
Africa Watch has condemned this detention without trial and the use of torture by the Sudanese government.
Academic text (1990) -
His childhood was rife with beatings, sexual abuse, and outright torture at the hands of his father.
Academic text (2011) -
The prisoner endured severe torture in an attempt to extract a confession.
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Human rights organizations often speak out against the torture of political dissidents.
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The investigation revealed stories of torture that shocked the entire nation.
Synonyms
187
5.6
Very cruel and violent actions that hurt people
129
3.2
Actions that hurt people or animals on purpose
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5.9
Punishment that is very cruel or too harsh for the crime and not allowed by law
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9.2
Harsh or violent questioning by government officials that is like torture
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8.4
Very cruel and violent behavior that hurts people
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7.0
Cruel treatment that hurts people or animals physically and emotionally
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6.4
Cruel treatment of a person or animal, often over a long time
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8.4
An act of treating someone very cruelly or making them cruel through violence
1
8.3
An act that causes someone great pain and suffering on purpose
Deliberately causing severe pain to make someone give information
The act of causing very severe pain to someone
Compounds
- Offensive
8
7.7
A room where people are made to feel pain to punish or force them to speak
A slow, very annoying experience that makes you feel anxious, like drops falling again and again
- Offensive
Harmful actions by government officials to force a person to confess in a court case
- Informal
A joking way to describe something very annoying or upsetting to experience
How Painful
- Offensive
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7.1
- NSFW
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5.6
135
3.9
636
2.8
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1.0
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3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torture comes from the Latin verb torquere, which means 'to twist'. Because people once used twisting to cause pain, torture now names the practice of causing very strong physical or mental pain to someone on purpose.