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torturing
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torturing
(wn) | torturing
adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome]
n 1: 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] |
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Torturingly
(gcide) | Torturingly \Tor"tur*ing*ly\, adv.
So as to torture. --Beau. & Fl.
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tTorturing
(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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