Word Finder - torturing

definition

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

example

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.

definition

An act of torture

So Natasha tried to solve what was torturing her by herself.

His visions were more than just his death; they were the first-person experience of the torturing and killing of many, many others, as if she were mutilating others.

Her first thought was that he was sending her to Death as a means of torturing her or at least, nailing home the point that he had won this round with Gabriel.

If he was half as creative at torturing people and planning his battles as he was in bed, he was more than capable of doing it.

The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him.

Not at all like Darkyn was bleeding her dry or torturing her.

Why was she torturing herself, when a cool apartment waited vacant in Los Angeles?

A culprit is easily discovered either by an appeal to a local diviner or in torturing some one into confession.

The Hungarians retaliated in kind, burning and harrying as far as Semendria, torturing and murdering, and carrying off the saleable inhabitants as slaves.

In one such raid upon the Masulipatam coast they plundered 339 villages, killing or wounding 682 persons, torturing 3600 and carrying off property worth a quarter of a million.

Besides being comfortable to wear, corsets show off a women's assets without torturing her body or causing the medical issues that came with wearing them generations ago.

I feel like I have finally purged myself of the repetitive thoughts that have been torturing me for the last year.

Then he made a sign to someone, and the torturing pain in his abdomen caused Prince Andrew to lose consciousness.

Already, supposedly respectable Christian governments are torturing their enemies in secret.

In 1659 the massacre of several drunken Indians by the soldiers caused a general rising of the Indians, who unsuccessfully attacked the stockade, killing some of the soldiers and inhabitants, and capturing and torturing others.

Not far behind Stefan, however, is his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder of Lost), a vicious killer intent on torturing his brother for some transgression in their past.

The isolated cases of the torturing of a revolutionary priest in Mexico in 1816, and of a relapsed Jew and of a Quaker in Spain during 1826, cannot really be considered as auto-da-fes.