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Synonyms for torture
ˈtɔr tʃərtor·ture
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
torture
Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.
Synonyms:
ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torment, twinge, wo(e)Antonyms:
comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace
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anguish, torment, torturenoun
extreme mental distress
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badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, anguish, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curse, tormenttorture, tormentnoun
unbearable physical pain
Synonyms:
badgering, harassment, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, agony, anguish, bedevilment, curse, twisting, distortion, straining, tormentagony, torment, torturenoun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
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badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, excruciation, anguish, bedevilment, suffering, twisting, agony, curse, tormentdistortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twistingnoun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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overrefinement, straining, strain, torturing, spin, twist, optical aberration, twisting, aberration, whirl, twirl, distortion, deformation, agony, distorted shape, anguish, tormenttorture, torturingverb
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"
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overrefinement, torturing, agony, anguish, twisting, distortion, straining, tormenttorment, torture, excruciate, rackverb
torment emotionally or mentally
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squeeze, gouge, bedevil, wring, extort, rack, rag, single-foot, excruciate, crucify, scud, dun, frustrate, tormenttorture, excruciate, tormentverb
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
Synonyms:
bedevil, rack, rag, excruciate, crucify, dun, frustrate, torment
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
torturenoun
Synonyms:
anguish, agony, torment, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distresstortureverb
Synonyms:
torment, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to extreme pain
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#42354 | aberration | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
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#60356 | gouge | |
#61306 | twirl | |
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#80021 | crucify | |
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How to use torture in a sentence?
An Interior Ministry official:
Any torture incident that takes place is an individual act.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
President Biden has assembled a strong national security team, but he should have serious concerns about entrusting his Presidential Daily Briefing to anyone who may have helped cover up this dark chapter in our nation's history, i can attest that it's critical that intelligence agencies provide the president and other leaders with unbiased, factual and honest information. As we now know, the CIA and its leadership misled the public, senators, and Senate staff for years about the CIA's systematic and brutal torture of detainees.
We were shocked and appalled by the mistreatment he suffered while in Chinese detention, which amounts to torture.
The President has asserted that torture works, do you agree with that statement ?
Translations for torture
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- عزّب, تعزيبArabic
- işgəncəAzerbaijani
- катаваннеBelarusian
- мъчениеBulgarian
- tortura, torturarCatalan, Valencian
- muka, mučeníCzech
- tortur, tortere, torturereDanish
- Tortur, Folter, folternGerman
- βασανίζω, βασανιστήρια, βασανιστήριοGreek
- torturo, torturiEsperanto
- tortura, torturarSpanish
- piinamineEstonian
- شکنجهPersian
- kiduttaa, kidutusFinnish
- píningFaroese
- torturer, tortureFrench
- pianadhIrish
- torturar, torturaGalician
- kínzás, kínoz, kínszenvedésHungarian
- չարչարանք, խոշտանգել, խոշտանգում, կտտանքArmenian
- torturaItalian
- 拷問Japanese
- ទារុណកម្មKhmer
- 고문, 拷問Korean
- cruciamenLatin
- martelen, folteren, martelingDutch
- torturere, torturNorwegian
- torturaPolish
- torturar, torturaPortuguese
- tortura, chinui, chinRomanian
- истязание, пытать, мучение, страдание, мучить, мука, пыткаRussian
- mučenieSlovak
- tortera, tortyrSwedish
- சித்திரவதைTamil
- చిత్రహింసTelugu
- การทรมานThai
- işkenceTurkish
- тортураUkrainian
- tra tấnVietnamese
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