Hypertext Webster Gateway: "torturing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Torture \Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} (?; 135); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Torturing.}] [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
torturing
adj : extremely painful [syn: {agonizing}, {agonising}, {excruciating},
{harrowing}, {torturous}, {torturesome}]
n : the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural
torturing to extract a confession" [syn: {torture}]
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