Definition of Torture

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Torture

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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.

The act or process of torturing.

To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

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Torture Quotations

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Edward Kennedy

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.
Rush Limbaugh

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

Love is a reciprocal torture.
Marcel Proust

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
Henry Miller

Torture Translations

torture in Dutch is pijnigen, martelen, folteren
torture in Finnish is kiduttaa
torture in French is tourment, torturons, torturent, torturez, supplice
torture in German is Qual, Qual, Folter
torture in Italian is tortura, tormento
torture in Latin is cruciamentum, cruciatus, torqueo, excrucio
torture in Portuguese is tortura
torture in Spanish is tortura, tormento
torture in Swedish is tortera, pina, tortyr

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