torture has definitions from the fields of psychology,medicine
1
[ verb ] torment emotionally or mentally

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

It slips_away , it burns and tortures me .

2
[ noun ] (psychology) extreme mental distress

Synonyms

anguish torment

Used in print

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

He and Mary would no_longer have to tear and rend at each other ; their mutual torture would be over .

Related terms

distress pain torment

3
[ verb ] subject to torture

Synonyms

torment excruciate

Examples

"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

Used in print

(Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)

But when a board of inquiry was called to look_into the charges of cowardice made against him , the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux , refused to say a harsh word against him .

4
[ noun ] (medicine) unbearable physical pain

Synonyms

torment

Related terms

pain

5
[ noun ] the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
6
[ noun ] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

Synonyms

agony torment

Examples

"an agony of doubt" "the torments of the damned"

Related terms

suffering torment agonize

7
[ noun ] the act of torturing someone

Synonyms

torturing

Examples

"it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

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