Overview of noun torture

The noun torture has 5 senses

• anguish, torment, torture -- (extreme mental distress)


• torture, torment -- (unbearable physical pain)


• agony, torment, torture -- (intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned")


• distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting -- (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)


• torture, torturing -- (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")

Overview of verb torture

The verb torture has 2 senses

• torment, torture, excruciate, rack -- (torment emotionally or mentally)


• torture, excruciate, torment -- (subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible")