torturing
拷问,拷打,折磨人,酷刑折磨
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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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!
- : to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms.
- : to distort or pervert.
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Examples
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.