TORTURE

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : torturing

• (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

  synonyms : distortion , overrefinement , straining , twisting

• (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

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

  synonyms : agony , torment

• (noun) extreme mental distress

  synonyms : anguish , torment

  Existentialist philosophy believes that we create our own anguish. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) unbearable physical pain

  synonyms : torment

• (verb) subject to torture

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

  synonyms : excruciate , torment

• (verb) torment emotionally or mentally

  synonyms : excruciate , rack , torment

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