torture

Noun

• 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
    

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
  • an agony of doubt
    
  • the torments of the damned
    

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

Verb

• subject to torture
  • The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
    

• torment emotionally or mentally

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  torturing , distortion , overrefinement , straining , twisting , agony , torment , anguish , excruciate , rack