torture
noun
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Sense 1 noun
extreme mental distress
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Sense 2 verb
torment emotionally or mentally
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Sense 3 noun
unbearable physical pain
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Sense 4 verb
subject to torture
The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
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Sense 5 noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
an agony of doubt
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Sense 6 noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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Sense 7 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
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pain |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | anguish |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | distress |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rack |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tormenter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | agony |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tormenter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | torturer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excruciation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pain |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | torturing |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pain |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | torturing |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | excruciation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tormenter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tormenter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | torturer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | excruciation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | torment |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | wound |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | rack |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | martyrize |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonist |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonist |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonize |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonize |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | torturing |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonal |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | hurt |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | overrefine |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | warp |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | twist around |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | falsification |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | persecution |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | falanga |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | boot |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | burning |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | excruciation |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | genital torture |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | judicial torture |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | kia quen |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | kittee |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | nail pulling |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | piquet |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | prolonged interrogation |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | rack |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | sensory deprivation |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | sleep deprivation |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | strappado |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | electric shock |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | dismemberment |