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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
tortured
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n.
tTorturing.] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
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