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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. Related Definitions:
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Torture Quotations
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mohandas Gandhi 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 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 I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. Juliet Stevenson 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 |
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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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