Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
TORTURE
torture, torturing
(noun) 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”
distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
(noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
agony, torment, torture
(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; “an agony of doubt”; “the torments of the damned”
anguish, torment, torture
(noun) extreme mental distress
torture, torment
(noun) unbearable physical pain
torture, excruciate, torment
(verb) subject to torture; “The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible”
torment, torture, excruciate, rack
(verb) torment emotionally or mentally
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
torture (countable and uncountable, plural tortures)
intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony
(chiefly, literary) the "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships
(colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment
Verb
torture (third-person singular simple present tortures, present participle torturing, simple past and past participle tortured)
(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
Anagrams
• trouter, tutorer
Source: Wiktionary
Tor"ture, n. Etym: [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort, Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort, Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton.
2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
3. The act or process of torturing. Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640. Macaulay.
Tor"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tortured (; p. pr. & vb. n. Torturing.] Etym: [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak.
3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. Jar. Taylor.
4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.] The bow tortureth the string. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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