torture
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
People confess to anything under torture.
Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.
What new tortures await me?
Đồng nghĩa: enhanced interrogation techniques
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
Đồng nghĩa: anguish, rend, difficulty, distress, grief, hardship, pain, smart, torment, torture, trouble, misery, pain, wark
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!
Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. (http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/eleven-months-of-absolute-torture-760652.aspx)
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
1 August 2014, Barack Obama, "Press Conference by the President"; transcript published online by the Obama White House Archives, [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/01/press-conference-president [1]]. With respect to the larger point of the RDI report itself, even before I came into office I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.
People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
Đồng nghĩa: afflict, torment, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, dere, excruciate, hurt, irritate, pang, pine, rack, throe, torment, torture, wring
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ine-pro From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from tortūra, from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (to twist).