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English adjective: torturing

1. torturing extremely painful


Synonymsagonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous


Similarpainful


Antonymspainless


English noun: torturing

1. torturing (act) 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


SamplesIt required unnatural torturing to extract a confession.


Synonymstorture


Broader (hypernym)persecution


Narrower (hyponym)bastinado, boot, burning, crucifixion, dismemberment, electric shock, excruciation, falanga, genital torture, judicial torture, kia quen, kittee, nail pulling, nail removal, picket, piquet, prolonged interrogation, rack, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, strapado, strappado, taking apart









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