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Noun torturing has 1 sense

• torturing(n = noun.act) torture - 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"
is a kind of persecution
has particulars: bastinado, falanga, boot, burning, crucifixion, excruciation, genital torture, judicial torture, kia quen, kittee, nail pulling, nail removal, picket, piquet, prolonged interrogation, rack, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, strapado, strappado, electric shock, dismemberment, taking apart
Derived form verb torture₂

Adjective torturing has 1 sense

• torturing(s = adj.all) agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous - extremely painful; Array

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torturing

abuse of terms, agonizing, catachresis, contorting, corruption, distortion, eisegesis, error, false coloring, garbling, gloss, harrowing, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, misdirection, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, racking, slanting, squeezing, straining, tearing, tormenting, torturous, twisting, wrenching

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