Crossword-Solution: TORTURE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Torture | n. | Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. |
| Torture | n. | 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. |
| Torture | n. | The act or process of torturing. |
| Torture | v. t. | To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. |
| Torture | v. t. | To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. |
| Torture | v. t. | To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. |
| Torture | v. t. | To keep on the stretch, as a bow. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TORTURE | anagram | TROUTER |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with TORTURE (5)
She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground? Yet her face was impassive; she was the daughter of a chief, she must die as a chief’s daughter, it is enough.
Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds, Convulsions, Epilepsies, fierce Catarrhs, Intestin Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs, Dropsies, and Asthma’s, and Joint-racking Rheums.
For the offertory he sang Gounod’s “Ave Maria,”—always spoken of in Sainte-Agnes as “the Ave Maria.” Emil began to torture himself with questions about Marie.
But you have never been a man looking upon a woman, and that woman yourself.” “Well.” “Then you know nothing of what such an experience is like—and Heaven forbid that you ever should.” “Nonsense, flatterer! What is it like? I am interested in knowing.” “Put shortly, it is not being able to think, hear, or look in any direction except one without wretchedness, nor there without torture.” “Ah, sergeant, it won’t do—you are pretending,” she said, shaking her head dubiously.
Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.
Quotes with TORTURE (3)
His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane. He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day. He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone. He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life. He watched the door they would come through.
Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the automobile. Imagine standing at a graveside not dressed in your best dark suit and your best black shoes, polished delightfully. Imagine sending flowers to a funeral with no attached card to prove you had done the correct thing. In no social institution is the codified ritual of behav…
Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religious fundamentalism is eradicated from the human society. Until the whole humanity learns to scrutinize its most revered scriptures with the sharp tool of reasoning, Jihad will keep on striking over the world. If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primi…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1943–2021).