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torture
  1. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
  2. (literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
  3. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “After enduring violent physical torture at the hands of Rajah Allang, he virtually becomes the god-figure among the natives.”
      “It was just pure torture having to go through the same grind every single day while working there.”
torturess
torturedness
  1. The quality of being tortured.
torturer
  1. Someone who tortures.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She remembered looking into the eyes of her torturer and knowing categorically that he realized he was never going to break her.”
      “We are no longer in the presence of a torturer seizing upon a victim and enjoying her all the more because she is unconsenting and unpersuaded.”
      “During the early 1980s, he developed a reputation as a brutal torturer and interrogator.”
torturing
torturings
torturesses
  1. plural of torturess
torturers
  1. plural of torturer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.”
      “Such celluloid misrepresentation has cast the people as wily torturers of blue-eyed boys, and their homeland as a tropical hellhole.”
      “What's she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps?”
tortures
  1. plural of torture
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The concrete reality consists of kidnappings, murders, tortures, rapes and massacres.”
      “With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations.”
      “So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.”
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