Found 4 items, similar to Torture.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: torture
menyiksa
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: torture
menganiaya, menyiksa, sikatan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: torture
torture
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn:
torment,
excruciate,
rack]
2: subject to torture;
“The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible” [syn:
excruciate,
torment]
torture
n 1: extreme mental distress [syn:
anguish,
torment]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn:
torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical
pain;
“an agony of doubt”;
“the torments of the damned”
[syn:
agony,
torment]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
something it was not intended to mean [syn:
distortion,
overrefinement,
straining,
twisting]
5: the act of torturing someone;
“it required unnatural
torturing to extract a confession” [syn:
torturing]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Torture
Torture
\Tor"ture\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura,
fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin
to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and
perhaps to E. queer. Cf.
Contort,
Distort,
Extort,
Retort,
Tart, n.,
Torch,
Torment,
Tortion,
Tort,
Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
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Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
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2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as
punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a
confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by
the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
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3. The act or process of torturing.
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Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and
which had recently been declared illegal even by the
servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the
last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay.
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