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torture1 nountorture2 verb torturetor‧ture1 /ˈtɔːtʃə $ ˈtɔːrtʃər/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable]   torture1Origin: 1500-1600 French, Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus ‘twisted’, from torquere; ➔ TORQUE - The militias have been know to use torture to get people to confess.
- What torture parent's lectures are for children!
- Also patron of torture victims; he is invoked against foot trouble.
- Barbara was subjected to heinous torture, yet refused to disavow her faith.
- Heinz suggested that laws and constitutions of countries should be strengthened to make international declarations against torture into enforceable law.
- I never particularly relished torture, but I resigned myself to it when I arrived in Algiers..
- I should have been spared the torture of separation from my father during his last moments...
- Most of the reported deaths, however, were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations.
- They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place.
► gas/torture chamber (=used for killing people by gas or for hurting them) ADJECTIVE► mental· If the mental torture is always there, the physical hurt and threat is, for most, behind them.· I could scarcely bear to watch the mental torture you put my daughter through that evening.· The mental torture of that for Charlie would have been tremendous. ► physical· Oh, they won't go for anything so crude as physical torture.· The report also stated that physical and psychological torture was routinely used against those in police custody and in prison. NOUN► chamber· It was as if we were locked in a torture chamber.· She's just discovered you have a torture chamber here. ► victim· Also patron of poverty and torture victims.· Vanessa Redgrave plays a psychiatrist who runs a Portland, Ore., rehab center for torture victims from around the world.· I told them I was a torture victim.· In its young life here, Survivors International has treated some 400 torture victims from 39 countries. VERB► subject· Mum was subjected to water torture for three weeks running.· Barbara was subjected to heinous torture, yet reftised to disavow her faith. ► suffer· I hope you suffer torture until you die.· This is a theoretical draw, but Timman may have to suffer several hours of torture before he can claim the half-point.· Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members.· The prisoners in Mozdok are rumoured to suffer worse torture than in those in Chernokozovo. ► use· That would suggest that as long as one has the time and the means one can avoid having to use torture. 1an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel:  He died after five days of excruciating torture.2severe physical or mental suffering: The waiting must be torture for you.torture1 nountorture2 verb torturetorture2 ●○○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEtorture |
| Present | I, you, we, they | torture | | he, she, it | tortures | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tortured | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tortured | | he, she, it | has tortured | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tortured | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will torture | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tortured |
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| Present | I | am torturing | | he, she, it | is torturing | | you, we, they | are torturing | | Past | I, he, she, it | was torturing | | you, we, they | were torturing | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been torturing | | he, she, it | has been torturing | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been torturing | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be torturing | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been torturing |
- He is still tortured by memories of the attack.
- Several of the prisoners confirmed that they had been tortured.
- And perms, our straight hair tortured into frizz for the Christmas or Easter gathering and the requisite smiling photograph.
- Anticipated in December and enjoyed in January, February citrus can torture the souls of tree owners.
- He is drawn to the Ring and his thoughts are tortured by it.
- His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
- Piotr Jaroszewicz, 83, had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured.
- When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.
► gas/torture chamber (=used for killing people by gas or for hurting them) NOUN► death· At this time, his wife Yelva was tortured to death.· Another has him tortured to death by having his intestines pulled from him by a windlass.· She was raped and tortured to death. ► prisoner· Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.· So is the rape and torture of prisoners by prisoners. VERB► arrest· Hundreds of officers were arrested, tortured and executed.· Regarded with suspicion by the police, such tribals are often arrested arbitrarily, tortured and stripped of their civil rights. ► beat· Throughout the country, Mugabe supporters have beaten, tortured and murdered opposition members.· Some will starve to death, others will die of exposure, still others will be beaten or burned or tortured.· He is haunted by flashbacks of being beaten, tortured and buried alive, but they are fragmented memories.· During the six and a half years of marriage, I was repeatedly beaten, terrorized, tortured and sexually molested. 1to deliberately hurt someone in order to force them to give you information, to punish them, or to be cruel: Political opponents of the regime may be tortured.2if a feeling or knowledge tortures you, it makes you suffer a lot mentally SYN torment: Rachel sat alone for hours at home, tortured by jealousy.—torturer noun [countable] |