TORTURES
Noun
tortures
plural of torture
Verb
tortures
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of torture
Anagrams
• trouters, tutorers
Source: Wiktionary
TORTURE
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