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torture
Extreme mental distress
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noun
Extreme mental distress
noun
Unbearable physical pain
noun
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
“An agony of doubt”
noun
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
noun
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
“It required unnatural torturing to extract a confession”
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Torment emotionally or mentally
verb
Subject to torture
“The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible”
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An agony of doubt
The torments of the damned
It required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
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