torturing 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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torturing 近义词
upset or hurt severely
更多torturing例句
- In my eyes she killed those people… exposing a gay person like this is akin to torturing him slowly to death.
- A number of Japanese soldiers were criminally charged and convicted for waterboarding and otherwise torturing prisoners.
- Prosecuting those involved in torturing prisoners will do just that.
- Purists sometimes seem to think that disregarding rules about prepositions is as heinous as torturing children.
- Torturing children for fun, by contrast, is objectionable regardless of whether those around you have adopted the practice.
- In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.
- I would leave no room for the torturing thought that had I been less precipitate she would have been more kindly.
- Twice she prepared to write to him, and end a suspense torturing to both,—and twice dashed down the pen in shame and pride.
- He nearly betrayed himself once by shouting from his window at a boy who was torturing a grasshopper.
- He did not believe he would sleep a wink through the night, for never were his emotions wrought to a more keenly torturing point.