Torture - Definition

n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment,
torture]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn:
agony, torment, torture]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something
it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion,
overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting]
5: 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" [syn: torture,
torturing]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture,
excruciate, rack]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate,
torment]