torture

torture
n
1. persecution, persecuting, excruciation, torment, tormenting, torturing, martyrdom, crucifixion, crucifying; punishment, punishing, castiga-tion; abuse, beating, flagellation, flagging, lashing, whipping; molestation, mistreatment, maltreatment, ill-treatment.
2. agony, misery, suffering, wretchedness; pain, hurt, wound, sting, pang; anguish, distress, woe, har-rowment, tribulation, trouble, hell.
3. torture, infliction, rack, lancination; affliction, plague, adversity, scourge, curse, thorn; atrocity, ag-grievement, outrage, wrong.
v
4. agonize, excruciate, rack, put someone on the rack, martyr, crucify; pain, hurt, scathe, lacerate, put someone through the wringer; torment, persecute, abuse, beat, Sl. work over, Sl. give someone the works, Archaic. belabor; anguish, distress, grieve, afflict, plague, harrow, rend, worry, trouble, disturb, Scot. fash.
5. wring, wrest, pry out, force out, exact, extract, Law. extort.
6. contort, deform, disfigure, misshape, cripple; gnarl, convolute, twist, writhe, wrench, turn, bend, draw out of shape.
7. pervert, distort, garble, misrepresent, misrender, misinterpret, misstate, falsify; travesty, butcher, slaughter, murder; corrupt, adulterate, bastardize, vitiate, debase, contaminate, pollute; caricature, burlesque, exaggerate, minimize.

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