torture
IPA: tˈɔrtʃɝ
noun
- The intentional causing of somebody's experiencing of agony, usually as an interrogation technique or punishment.
- (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
- (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") Stage fright; severe embarrassment.
verb
- (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
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Examples of "torture" in Sentences
- The way people throw around the term torture, it has a very strict legal test.
- The frantic reich-wing effort to implicate Obama in torture is a tiny ray of hope.
- After many nights of torture, this jacket, at my urgent and repeated request, was finally adjusted in such manner that, had it been so adjusted at first, I need not have suffered any _torture_ at all.
- So, nothing on the fact that Nancy Pelsoi, whose alleged involvement in torture is supposed to prevent her from pushing for investigations and prosecutions, is now urging investigations and prosecutions?
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- Please note what the President did not say: He did not say (1) that we Americans do not engage in torture, (2) that torture is immoral, (3) that international and U.S. law does not permit it, or (4) that even if the law permitted it, which it does not, we would not engage in it.
- * Generals say crucial reports did not mention torture* "Ludicrous" to say most detainees abused - general By David LjunggrenOTTAWA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Two former Canadian military commanders on Wednesday denied accusations they had ignored warnings that Afghan authorities might torture and abuse detainees handed over to them.
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- The word torture here encompasses the acts of violence of a feared internal security apparatus that numbered from three thousand to five thousand, with paid informants pushing it to perhaps sixty thousand strong.60 Amnesty International noted in its 1974–75 report: “The Shah of Iran retains his benevolent image despite the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts, and a history of torture that is beyond belief.”
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