tortures

Noun

• extreme mental distress
• unbearable physical pain
• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• 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
• plural of torture

Verb

• torment emotionally or mentally
• subject to torture
• third-person singular simple present indicative of torture

Synonyms

agony, anguish, distortion, excruciate, overrefinement, rack, straining, torment, torture, torturing, twisting