torture




torture - noun

  • extreme mental distress
  • unbearable physical pain
  • intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
  • 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

    • torture - verb

    • torment emotionally or mentally
    • subject to torture

    torture - thesaurus

    agony   anguish   distortion   excruciate   overrefinement   rack   straining   torment   torturing   twisting  


    View spelling list -ture words - set 1 and learn about the word torture in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 31. Word endings:-ture, -tain, ine.

    Scrabble score for torture

    t is 1 o is 1 r is 1 t is 1 u is 1 r is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 7

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