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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Torture \Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} (?; 135); p.
pr & vb n. {Torturing.}] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tortured
adj 1: subjected to intense pain; "hundreds of tortured prisoners"
2: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an
anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a
tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn: {anguished},
{tormented}]
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