English Dictionary

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
Source : opted (160430)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (160431)  - auto

The act or process of torturing.
Source : opted (160432)  - auto

To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
Source : opted (160435)  - auto

To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
Source : opted (160436)  - auto

To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
Source : opted (160437)  - auto

To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
Source : opted (160438)  - auto