Word Finder - torture

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Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony

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In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.

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The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships

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Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. (http//www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/eleven-months-of-absolute-torture-760652.aspx)

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(often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment

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To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

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In the aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but, we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.

She imagined the conversation was nothing short of torture for a warrior.

This unfortunate man died under torture, which he bore with fortitude.

Now it was a place of torture.

We pray for all who face interrogation, even with torture.

How can you torture me and yourself like that, for a mere fancy? said Nicholas taking her hand.

If you are one of the people who dreads going to the gym because the treadmill seems more like a torture device than an exercise machine, explore the many other options for cardio/aerobic exercise that exist both inside and outside the gym.

She understood Jared's warning about torture and being willing to bargain.

Which would've been fine, for an Anshan woman, but appeared to be nothing short of torture to her.

His face countenances the idea that Britain should not be willing to deport people to face torture or death.

They cannot be deported to face torture on the basis of unproven assertions.

I found this sequence much more bearable than the torture sequence, where characters are not even given a chance to fight back.

They wanted to hear tales of torture, beatings and brutality.

Where does harsh interrogation cross the borderline into torture?

At her trial Mark Smeaton was the only man to speak against her and this was following brutal torture.

Thursday 2 May 1974 The Irish government brought a case of torture against the British government to the European Commission on Human Rights.

The UK is a party to the Convention against Torture which imposes an absolute prohibition on torture, with no exceptions.

At worst, you may be put to death after much torture if you do not recant your belief in Jesus.

Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

After a series of victorious engagements he was taken prisoner and subjected to severe torture, which dislocated his limbs.

The temporal dignitaries declared the evidence to be insufficient and suggested that Alexius should be examined by torture.

The influence of a bigoted priesthood was re-established, and every form of intellectual and moral torment, everything save actual persecution and physical torture that could be inflicted on- the impure was inflicted (Cesare Balbos Autobiography).

His refusal to countenance torture as an instrument of judicial investigation, on the ground that "confessions so extorted give no sure criteria for forming a judgment," showed him to be more humane as well as more enlightened than the majority of his council, which had defended the contrary opinion.

The two knights were put to the torture and executed, and their goods confiscated.

Both Pratts were not very popular on the show because of their childish behavior, and became even less popular when Stephanie Pratt claimed NBC subjected Spencer and Heidi to torture, a claim which has been denied by NBC and Spencer.

He ordered them to be immediately arrested, and though the archbishop escaped his four companions - among them Pomuk - were seized and subjected to cruel torture.

Warwick Castle is a fine medieval castle entered through dungeons, armory and torture chamber.

The election may now be over, but the issue of British complicity in torture is not going to go away.

It also called on the UN's special rapporteur on torture to report back from Guantanamo to the 2005 Human Rights Commission.

Cuamba claimed he made this confession because of " psychological torture " .

Both the US and the British governments use evidence obtained under torture, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

Over the most excruciating torture of body the brave soul may rise triumphant.

During their forty days of confinement and torture each one had been told that the others had recanted, and the false report of Savonarola's confession had been shown to the two monks.

It regarded itself as justified in invoking the power of the state to suppress heresy by civil pains and penalties, including even torture and death.

Being all condemned to the rack in order to extort confession, they appealed to the parlement; but this body, being as weak as the subordinate magistrates, sentenced the father to the torture, ordinary and extraordinary, to be broken alive upon the wheel, and then to be burnt to ashes; which decree was carried into execution on the 9th of March 1762.

To ascertain the truth, he had also put to the torture two maid-servants described as deaconesses, but had discovered nothing beyond a perverse and extravagant superstition.

In 1770 torture was abolished.

He was charged with aiming at a dictatorship, with permitting or even encouraging the imprisonment, torture and execution without trial of political opponents, with maladministration of the finances and with aggression against the neighbouring states.

I want to do what's best for her, but don't want to "torture" her with multiple vet visits.

Such messages, like propaganda pamphlets of old, inspired thousands more young people to take a stand and risk imprisonment, torture and death to fight for freedom.

He could not in general be examined ` s a witness, except by torture.

Kepler immediately hastened to Wurttemberg, and owing to his indefatigable exertions she was acquitted after having suffered thirteen month's imprisonment, and endured with undaunted courage the formidable ordeal of "territion," or examination under the imminent threat of torture.

On the 4th of August Ballard was seized and betrayed his comrades, probably under torture.

The Dutch were already too strongly entrenched in the Indian archipelago for English competition to avail there, and the intense rivalry between the two nations led to the tragedy of Amboyna in 1623, when Governor Van Speult put to torture and death nine Englishmen on a charge of conspiring to take the Dutch forts.

But when he declined even under torture to confess that he had been guilty of extensive peculation, he was finally released.

As it was at first suspected that the writing of this book had been prompted by some disaffected persons, Peacham was interrogated, and after he had declined to give any information, was subjected to torture.

Thus on the 7th of November he had no knowledge of the mine, and it is only after Fawkes's examination by torture on the 9th, when the names of the conspirators were drawn from him, that the government was able to classify them according to their guilt and extent of their participation.

All I can say is that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it.

They would torture and murder any of us who might lead them to him.

I don't know Sarah, thought it might be fun to torture myself.

Shaking his head, Rhyn realized how sweaty his palms were as he stood before the door leading to the zoo.  Sasha's mages had sat in the antechamber, repairing any damage the inmates did to their cells or preparing some magical torture that Sasha wanted.