| slovo | definícia |
torture
(mass) | torture
- trápiť, mučiť |
torture
(encz) | torture,mučení n: Zdeněk Brož |
torture
(encz) | torture,mučit |
torture
(encz) | torture,trápit v: Zdeněk Brož |
torture
(encz) | torture,trýznění n: Zdeněk Brož |
torture
(encz) | torture,trýznit v: Pino |
torture
(encz) | torture,týrání n: Zdeněk Brož |
torture
(gcide) | torture \tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tortured
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. tTorturing.] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
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Torture
(gcide) | Torture \Tor"ture\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura,
fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin
to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and
perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort,
Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort,
Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
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Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
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2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as
punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a
confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by
the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
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3. The act or process of torturing.
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Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and
which had recently been declared illegal even by the
servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the
last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay.
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torture
(wn) | torture
n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment,
torture]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn:
agony, torment, torture]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something
it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion,
overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting]
5: 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" [syn: torture,
torturing]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture,
excruciate, rack]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate,
torment] |
TORTURE
(bouvier) | TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed
criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their
associates.
2. This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United
States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a
person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable
offence. 2 Tyler, 380. Vide Question.
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instrument of torture
(encz) | instrument of torture, n: |
self-torture
(encz) | self-torture, n: |
torture chamber
(encz) | torture chamber, n: torture chamber,mučírna n: Zdeněk Brož |
torture to death
(encz) | torture to death,umučit k smrti |
tortured
(encz) | tortured,mučený adj: Zdeněk Brožtortured,týraný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
torturer
(encz) | torturer,mučitel n: Zdeněk Brož |
torturesome
(encz) | torturesome, adj: |
Pretorture
(gcide) | Pretorture \Pre*tor"ture\ (?; 135), v. t.
To torture beforehand. --Fuller.
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Self-torture
(gcide) | Self-torture \Self`-tor"ture\, n.
The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on
one's self.
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Torture
(gcide) | torture \tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tortured
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. tTorturing.] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]Torture \Tor"ture\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura,
fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin
to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and
perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort,
Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort,
Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
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Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
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2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as
punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a
confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by
the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
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3. The act or process of torturing.
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Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and
which had recently been declared illegal even by the
servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the
last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay.
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tortured
(gcide) | torture \tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tortured
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. tTorturing.] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
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Torturer
(gcide) | Torturer \Tor"tur*er\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r*[~e]r), n.
One who tortures; a tormentor.
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Untortured
(gcide) | Untortured \Untortured\
See tortured. |
genital torture
(wn) | genital torture
n 1: blunt or penetrating trauma or rape (vaginal or anal) |
instrument of torture
(wn) | instrument of torture
n 1: an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict
torture on the condemned person |
judicial torture
(wn) | judicial torture
n 1: torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by
duly accredited officials; "the English renounced judicial
torture in 1640" |
self-torture
(wn) | self-torture
n 1: self-imposed distress [syn: self-torture, self-torment] |
torture chamber
(wn) | torture chamber
n 1: a room in which torture is inflicted |
tortured
(wn) | tortured
adj 1: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an
anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a
tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn:
anguished, tormented, tortured] |
torturer
(wn) | torturer
n 1: someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for
punishment or coercion) |
torturesome
(wn) | torturesome
adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome] |
TORTURE
(bouvier) | TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed
criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their
associates.
2. This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United
States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a
person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable
offence. 2 Tyler, 380. Vide Question.
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