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torture

/tawr-cher/US // ˈtɔr tʃər //UK // (ˈtɔːtʃə) //

酷刑,拷问,折磨,酷刑问题

Related Words

persecution迫害,逼迫suffering痛苦,苦难,煎熬,苦痛torment煎煎熬熬,煎熬,折磨,荼毒misery苦难,痛苦,悲哀,忧患annoy恼人的,烦人,烦人的,烦人的事disturb困扰,干扰,扰乱,骚扰injure伤害,损伤,受伤,伤害了beat打,殴打,拍打,击打wound伤口,外伤,创伤,伤abuse滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为persecute迫害,逼迫,折磨,迫害别人mistreat虐待,虐待行为,枉费心机,枉费maim残害,致残,伤残,残废mutilate肢解,残害,残缺不全,毁坏oppress压迫,欺压,镇压,压迫别人laceration撕裂伤,裂伤,割伤,撕裂distress苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰martyrdom殉道,殉教,殉难,殉情agony苦难,痛苦,苦痛,煎熬dolor缺点,颜色,缺陷,缺点是

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
    • : a cause of severe pain or anguish.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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!
    • : to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms.
    • : to distort or pervert.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsevere mental or physical pain
Forms: tortured, torturing
Synonyms
misery苦难,痛苦,悲哀,忧患persecution迫害,逼迫suffering痛苦,苦难,煎熬,苦痛torment煎煎熬熬,煎熬,折磨,荼毒ache疼痛,疼,痛痛,痛affliction痛苦,困扰,苦难,苦恼agony苦难,痛苦,苦痛,煎熬anguish痛苦,痛楚,苦恼,痛苦的crucifixion耶稣受难,十字架,耶稣受难记,受难distress苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰dolor缺点,颜色,缺陷,缺点是excruciation苦难,痛苦,极度痛苦,痛苦不堪impalement刺伤,刺穿,穿刺,打击laceration撕裂伤,裂伤,割伤,撕裂martyrdom殉道,殉教,殉难,殉情pang悸动,悸動,悸动的,悸动的心rack机架,架,架子,架设tribulation磨难,摩难,苦难,争论twinge绞痛,绞绞痛,绞伤cruciation十字架,十字架上,十字架空,十字架空层third degree三级,第三度,第三级,三度
verbupset or hurt severely
Forms: tortured, torturing
Synonyms
abuse滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为annoy恼人的,烦人,烦人的,烦人的事beat打,殴打,拍打,击打disturb困扰,干扰,扰乱,骚扰injure伤害,损伤,受伤,伤害了maim残害,致残,伤残,残废mistreat虐待,虐待行为,枉费心机,枉费mutilate肢解,残害,残缺不全,毁坏oppress压迫,欺压,镇压,压迫别人persecute迫害,逼迫,折磨,迫害别人torment煎煎熬熬,煎熬,折磨,荼毒wound伤口,外伤,创伤,伤afflict困扰,蹂躏,危害,牵连agonize苦恼,苦恼的是,苦恼的bother困扰,麻烦,烦恼,烦扰crucify钉死,钉死在十字架上,钉在十字架上,钉住distress苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰excruciate痛苦的,痛苦不堪的,痛苦不堪,痛苦的折磨grill烧烤,格栅,烤架,烧烤店harrow耙子,耙地,耰锄,耙平impale刺穿,穿刺,刺杀,刺入irritate刺激性,刺激,恼人的,烦人lacerate撕裂,撕裂伤,撕裂性,撕裂性的mangle钳制,绞杀,掐死,掐断martyr殉道者,烈士,殉道士,殉难者martyrize殉道者,殉情,殉情者,殉道pain疼痛,痛苦,疼痛感,疼rack机架,架,架子,架设smite抨击,打击,捣毁,捣乱try尝试,试试,试试吧,试图whip鞭子,鞭打,鞭笞,皮鞭wring拧,揝,拧动,拧干wrong错误的,错,错的,错了

Examples

  • 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.

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