Torture
21torture — [[t]tɔ͟ː(r)tʃə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ tortures, torturing, tortured 1) VERB If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information. [be V ed] French police …
22TORTURE — n. f. Souffrance cruelle, tourment qu’on fait souffrir. D’horribles tortures. Des instruments de torture. Il se dit spécialement de la Souffrance physique qu’on infligeait à quelqu’un par voie de justice. Mettre à la torture. Appliquer à la… …
23torture — I. Torture, ou gehenne, Fidiculae, Tormentum, voyez Geine. La torture, La gehenne, La question, Quaestio tormentaria, Budaeus. Un engin et instrument à bailler la torture et gehenne aux gens, Equuleus equulei. Faux registres des confessions… …
24TORTURE — Quoiqu il y ait peu d articles de jurisprudence dans ces honnêtes réflexions alphabétiques, il faut pourtant dire un mot de la torture, autrement nommée question. C est une étrange manière de questionner les hommes. Ce ne sont pourtant pas de …
25torture — {{11}}torture (n.) early 15c., contortion, twisting, distortion, from O.Fr. torture infliction of great pain, great pain, agony, and directly from L.L. torture a twisting, writhing, torture, torment, from stem of L. torquere to twist, turn, wind …
26torture */ — I UK [ˈtɔː(r)tʃə(r)] / US [ˈtɔrtʃər] noun [uncountable] 1) extreme physical pain caused by someone or something, especially as a punishment or as a way to make someone say something The confession was made under torture. 2) informal a mentally or …
27torture — tor|ture1 [ tɔrtʃər ] noun uncount * 1. ) extreme physical pain caused by someone or something, especially as a punishment or as a way to make someone say something: The confession was made under torture. 2. ) INFORMAL a mentally or physically… …
28torture — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brutal ▪ systematic ▪ mental, physical, psychological VERB + TORTURE ▪ inflic …
29torture — tor|ture1 [ˈto:tʃə US ˈto:rtʃər] n [U and C] [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus twisted , from torquere; TORQUE] 1.) an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to… …
30torture — 1 noun 1 (C, U) an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel: He died after five days of excruciating torture. 2 (C, U) severe physical or mental suffering: Hearing her… …
