torture 的 2 个定义
- the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- a method of inflicting such pain.
- Often tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
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tor·tured, tor·tur·ing.
- to subject to torture.
- to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me.
- to force or extort by torture: We'll torture the truth from his lips!
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torture 近义词
severe mental or physical pain
upset or hurt severely
更多torture例句
- One night he listened to a friendly old man slowly die alone in the next cell after a bout of torture.
- These were people who had just escaped the most horrific abuse and torture, and violation from their own families.
- She wrote her resident’s thesis on political disappearances and torture cases archived by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
- The same month, President Buhari signed into law the Anti-Torture Act, which criminalized torture.
- Many of them live in secrecy for fear of torture and execution.
- But Chechen leader Kadyrov does not think that Committee Against Torture was needed in Chechnya.
- Torture, the UVa rape, police violence—we hunger for the facts, and then twist them.
- He also wrote, “Torture is not a thing that we can tolerate.”
- White House Must Decide Who Will Be Named in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
- Looking for a place to go, Alyokhina called her friends at a local human rights center, the Committee Against Torture.
- Torture may change your mind, as shame shall change your body.
- Torture indescribable has made of me a writhing, moaning, helpless creature for the past few minutes.
- Torture was still employed in capital cases to force confession even in Holland and France.
- Hercules in all the extremity of his Torture does not fall foul upon Religion.
- Torture was, therefore, at once employed to discover the hidden treasures.