ENGLISH: torture - CREOLE: malmennen



Overview of noun torture



The noun torture has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (1) anguish, torment, torture -- (extreme mental distress)

2. torture, torment -- (unbearable physical pain)

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

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

5. 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 (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (3) torment, torture, excruciate, rack -- (torment emotionally or mentally)

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

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