Word "TORTURE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
subject to torture
Synonyms:
excruciate, torment

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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
Synonyms:
torturing

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
extreme mental distress
Synonyms:
anguish, torment

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Hill displayed true distress (7)
Sheer agony
To Right you are saying "Start eliminating hurt" (7)
Cause agony to Mirror Tea Time 24 May 2025
The agony of being wrong at law and certain not to begin (7)
Cause agony to Mirror Tea Time 04 Feb 2025
Legal wrong certain first off to produce considerable pain (7)
Decay turns up true to form, and causes anguish (7)
It's legally wrong to quarrel regularly - amounts to ill-treatment (7)
Return of decay, true to form, with infliction of anguish (7)
Inflict suffering upon (7)
Torment Mirror Classic 02 Nov 2024
Teetotaller has an alternative - goes to the old city at the end of June for torment (7)
What should not be done to captured soldiers (7)
Extreme cruelty, inflicting harm. (7)
Infliction of severe pain to extract information (7)
Make one suffer anguish (8)
It is legally wrong to rue change that will cause pain (7)
Time spent in this chamber is painful (7)
Cause agony to Mirror Tea Time 10 May 2024
Where one was unwillingly taken for a stretch (7,7)
Decay returns : true, it's wrong to inflict so much pain (7)
There's nothing in a turret to produce such anguish (7)
Extreme mental distress (7)
Torment with torch? Ah, so I've heard! (7)
It's agony for the poor tutor again (7)
Suffering is wrong next to river (7)
It's agony to 6! (7)
It's true! When it contains rot it causes suffering
Inflict physical pain (7)
It's true! Rot may cause pain (7)
Anguish; true rot (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 13 Oct 2023
Great suffering The Times Concise 22 Sep 2022
Unbearable pain The Guardian Quick 06 Apr 2022
Physically abuse arsonist, reportedly
Long wait, to some LA Times Daily 14 Dec 2021
Injured over track, getting back pain
Pain ruptured around the receding furrow
True rot (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 20 Mar 2021
Dungeon doings Thomas Joseph 24 Feb 2021
Tutor upset about abuse
Wild otter round old city in distress The Sun Two Speed 06 Jan 2020
Great suffering The Sun Two Speed 06 Jan 2020
Anguish gave you lesson we hear The Sun Two Speed 15 May 2018
Distress or utter agony The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2018
Pain The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2018
Agony The Telegraph Quick 16 Nov 2017
The Geneva Conventions prohibit it New York Times 08 Mar 2017
The Geneva Conventions prohibit it
Rack pulled apart, vertical groove in it
Unbearable suspense, say Wall Street Journal 21 Apr 2016
Did race around inverted groove cause extreme discomfort? The Times Cryptic 09 Dec 2015
Wrong treatment — not the first to cause extreme suffering
Agonising pain The Sun Two Speed 06 Nov 2015
Tutor prepared scripture class for martyr The Telegraph Toughie 31 Jul 2015
Anguish brought by run going up over river The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Apr 2015
It may result in a painful admission
Anguish of French priest caught out after a wrongful act
Agony
Waiting, to some
Agony
Waiting, to some
Agony
"Love is reciprocal ___": Marcel Proust
Dungeon doings
Geneva Convention concern
Geneva Convention concern
Put on the rack
Extreme anguish
Nails-on-blackboard pain
Jog back alongside river? It'll hurt!
Use thumbscrews, e.g.
Extreme anguish
Put on the rack
Work evil
Torquemada's claim to fame
Extreme cruelty
Twist the meaning of
Judicial procedure obsolete in most civilized countries.
Put to the rack.
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