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English to English noun
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extreme mental distress |  | source: wordnet30
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unbearable physical pain | | source: wordnet30
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intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | | Example: an agony of doubt
the torments of the damned
source: wordnet30
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the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | | source: wordnet30
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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 | | Example: it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
source: wordnet30
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. | | source: webster1913 verb
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torment emotionally or mentally | | source: wordnet30
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subject to torture | | Example: The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
source: wordnet30
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To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. | | source: webster1913
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