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torture
verb
(tor-ture)
subject to torture
Synonyms:
excruciate
,
torment
,
torture
noun
(tor-ture)
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
Synonyms:
torturing
,
torture
noun
(tor-ture)
extreme mental distress
Synonyms:
anguish
,
torment
,
torture
verb
(tor-ture)
torment emotionally or mentally
Synonyms:
excruciate
,
rack
,
torment
,
torture
noun
(tor-ture)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonyms:
distortion
,
overrefinement
,
straining
,
twisting
,
torture
noun
(tor-ture)
unbearable physical pain
Synonyms:
torment
,
torture
noun
(tor-ture)
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Synonyms:
agony
,
torment
,
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torment
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agony
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anguish
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twisting
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rack
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overrefinement
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beatings
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duress
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,
suffering
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ears
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afflict
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cat
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plucked
,
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,
tortura
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waterboarding
,
mistreatment
,
brutality
,
detainee
,
humiliation
,
persecution
,
mutilation
,
sadism
,
rape
,
brutalization
,
repression
,
cruelty
,
bondage
,
corporal punishment
,
oppression
,
detention
,
gitmo
,
enslavement
,
guantanamo
,
maltreatment
,
terror
,
castration
,
inquisition
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solitary confinement
,
slaughter
,
slavery
,
interrogations
,
discruciate
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interrogators
,
atrocities
,
sensory deprivation
,
waterboard
,
tormentful
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human rights
,
genocide
,
geneva convention
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hooding
,
pilliwinks
,
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,
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,
forcipation
,
stupration
,
barbarity
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bernicle
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torture chamber
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coercion
,
female circumcision
,
inhumaneness
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dehumanization
,
defoul
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rapeful
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internment
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vivisection
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disappearances
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massacres
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algolagnia
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electroshock
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prisoners
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cannibalism
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khmer rouge
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inhumanities
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treason
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racial profiling
,
brutalisation
,
dehumanisation
,
infamies
,
captives
,
crucifixion
,
kangaroo court
,
infanticide
,
desecration
,
torquemada
,
punishment
,
barbarism
,
ethnic cleansing
,
torture
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