WordNet: torture, torturing
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"
- hypernym persecution
- hyponym bastinado, falanga
- hyponym boot
- hyponym burning
- hyponym crucifixion, excruciation
- hyponym genital torture
- hyponym judicial torture
- hyponym kia quen
- hyponym kittee
- hyponym nail pulling, nail removal
- hyponym picket, piquet
- hyponym prolonged interrogation
- hyponym rack
- hyponym sensory deprivation
- hyponym sleep deprivation
- hyponym strapado, strappado
- hyponym electric shock
- hyponym dismemberment, taking apart
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