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torture English

Meaning torture meaning

What does torture mean?
Definitions in simple English

torture Noun

— the act of torture is to hurt someone

torture

— verb (= torment) torment emotionally or mentally — verb (= torment) subject to torture The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible — noun (= anguish) extreme mental distress — noun (= torturing) 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 — noun unbearable physical pain — noun (= agony, torment) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain an agony of doubt the torments of the damned — noun (= distortion) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

Synonyms torture synonyms

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torture English » English

torment rack agonize pain excruciate agony suffering anguish punish harass abuse punishment persecute ill-treat worry twisting torturing straining overrefinement mistreat martyrdom maltreat hurt harry harrow distress distortion afflict suffer sheer hell prey on one’s mind penalty ordeal mutilate mishandle misery martyrize martyr inflict flog excruciation crucify crucifixion chivvy cause anguish bully bedevil beat wrest wound

Topics torture topics

What do people use torture to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Suffer
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Social behavior Law

Punish

  • What words refer to torturing someone?
    torture
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Demon possession

Conjugation torture conjugation

How do you conjugate torture?

torture · verb

Examples torture examples

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Simple sentences

We don't need to kill, torture, abuse and exploit animals to have all necessary nutrients for adequate lives.
The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
He was subjected to torture by the police.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
It was torture for him to see his girlfriend with another man.
It is illegal in the United States for law enforcement to use torture to get information.
In the U.S., it is illegal to torture people in order to get information from them.
He didn't divulge the information, not even under pain of torture.
Torture is a crime against humanity.
Since Tom arrived at Guantanamo Bay he has been exposed to different forms of torture: sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, extreme temperatures, prolonged isolation, lack of sunlight and limited health care.
We're going to torture them.
Torture is wrong.
Even a fly feels, when you torture it.
The torture made him confess to crimes he had not committed.
The prisoner died under torture.
In special forces, torture is a taboo.
When he was a kid, he used to catch birds and torture them to death.
Subjected to torture, he confessed to the crime that he hadn't committed.
It was a torture for me to play the piano.
The law does not accept confession under torture.
Torture is against the law.
It was sheer torture.
It was like torture.

Movie subtitles

We're just here to dance when you clap your hands and be your little writer monkeys here to humiliate ourselves, to torture ourselves for you.
Tomorrow the pale man will be tied to the pole of torture!
If she stubbornly denies her charges, they will use a kind of mental torture.
The accused is taken backwards into the torture chamber, so as not to bewitch the judge when entering.
But, if we should judge from the confessions, we must take a closer look at the props in the torture chamber.
In the torture chamber, Sotis begs for postponement for one last look at sunlight.
I found his hiding place deep within the torture chambers where he himself was confined during the second Revolution.
We have fallen into the room of many mirrors the old torture chamber!
Go prepare the torture chamber.
The torture chamber.
Punish me, torture me, but let me live!
Torture me!
Oh, Helen, it's been such torture.
This is torture.
Torture and hatred I do deserve, desperation and death!
They will interrogate him under torture.
The Paris Opera House, rising nobly over medieval torture chambers, hidden dungeons, long forgotten.
Please dont torture me.
What are you trying to do, torture me?
This waiting is torture!
If I but knew that you loved me, I might have the courage to carry on but to see you for so short a time brings torture to my heart.
What does my promise matter when I set it against this torture I feel?
Even now my voice is reaching millions, millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
I used to listen to him walking up and down, up and down, all night long, night after night, thinking of her, suffering torture because he'd lost her.
And that was my torture, wondering if I'd live to kiss you again.
Pan Potocki loves to torture people!
Someone goes to the polack settlement, as if to accidentally get captured,.and there under torture show that all our cavalry and Tatars are not in this forest, but there.
Your khlop sold his soul to devil, lied under torture til death, and deceived us.
Polish priest revealed under torture, he's sold out.

News and current affairs

Banning torture, complying with international standards of prisoners' rights, and enshrining rights of association and public assembly all immediately come to mind.
At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.
Freedom from torture?
This required the use of torture to identify and locate the leaders, followed by their capture or assassination.
Even putting aside moral and legal questions - which one should never do - it is doubtful whether the strategy of torture and assassination can achieve its pacifying purpose.
If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan - where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death - our claim to be part of a democratic, rights-respecting Europe will ring hollow.
Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a severe head wound.
The newly published documents do not disclose the very facts of torture, which were already well known by whomever wanted to know them.
But they do reveal a great deal of information about how the torture sessions unfolded and how the agents involved perceived them.
One would have thought that torture was the result of blunders or unintentional excesses committed on the spur of the moment.
On the contrary, these memos make clear that torture was a tactic formulated in minute detail.
This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.
The legal definition of torture implies the intentional infliction of severe suffering.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
Of course, most of us don't need to be conditioned to feel repulsed by rape or torture.
Instead, the world is responding to graphic images of unspeakable brutality - torture by the regime or executions carried out by the opposition - with sterile shows of outrage.
Assad has killed more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians, in a conflict that started with his government's torture of children.
Torture, beating, and other mistreatment of Uzbek detainees are widespread.
The use of torture had declined sharply.
Under Nigeria's various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
The man was later brutally interrogated in a former Gestapo torture facility and spent 14 years in prison.
In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.
But Rouhani's failure to make a decisive statement on Syria - even after a series of leaked photographs of systematic torture and massacre raised the ire of the international community - has not helped the case for keeping Iran in the fold.

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