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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. |
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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. |
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The act or process of torturing. |
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To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to
vex. |
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To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to
torture an accused person. |
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To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. |
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To keep on the stretch, as a bow. |
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