torture

[ˈtɔːrtʃər]

Definition:
1. The act of torturing someone.
2. Extreme mental distress.
3. Unbearable physical pain.
4. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain.
5. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
6. Torment emotionally or mentally.

Use 'torture' in a sentence:

1. Accounts suggest that he was subjected to cruel beatings and emotional torture, and that he was humiliated constantly by his father.
2. I say, Torture this one.
3. The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.
4. He was subject to a full measure of Humiliating Torture in all these years.
5. Won't you try, pretty little Snail, to free me from this terrible torture?
6. His confessions were made under torture.
7. France had torture instruments to the rack：the chevalet.
8. No torture would make him speak.
9. And then I'll torture you.
10. They have alleged that acts of genocide and torture were carried out.
11. Those detained include a former navy captain and several other ex-officers suspected of torture or murder during the last period of military rule in Argentina, which ended in 1983.
12. Tom's uneasiness grew more and more intense under the slow torture of these proceedings.
13. They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
14. Three members of the group had been tortured to death.
15. The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture.
16. It is such a torture to commute every day in rush-hour traffics.
17. Torture failed to make her submit.
18. I believed that in civilized countries, torture had ended long ago.
19. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed.
20. But you don't get it from torture.
21. No torture would make him talk.
22. 2,000 prisoners died as a result of torture and maltreatment.
23. Under torture, Alexis, who probably dies of cold, not of torture, in a very frozen cell.
24. He was tortured by an awareness of the equivocal nature of his position.
25. I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.
26. The Convention Against Torture defines torture as any act that inflicts severe pain or suffering, physical or mental.
27. Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
28. He was tortured into giving them the information.
29. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture.
30. The idea of being separated from him, even for a few hours, was torture.
31. Waiting for the result was torture.
32. Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.
33. Many of the refugees have suffered torture.
34. The report says there is widespread and routine torture of political prisoners in the country.
35. The prisoner was subjected to systematic torture.
36. Through those long years of imprisonment and torture, he remained faithful and unyielding.
37. UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are often the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials.
38. No more would they torture at the stake.
39. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her.
40. The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
41. Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.
42. It is my understanding that this torture has been going on for many years.
43. He tortured and mutilated six young men.
44. For many, the dentist's office remains a torture chamber.
45. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
46. There are consistent reports of electrical torture being practised on inmates.
47. It says torture and summary execution are common.
48. The report says torture was widespread, as were extra-judicial executions by government troops.
49. For many, the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.