Definition of torture in English:

torture

noun ˈtɔːtʃəˈtɔrtʃər

mass noun

1The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
酷刑；刑讯；拷问
the torture of political prisoners
confessions extracted under torture
as modifier a torture chamber
Example sentencesExamples
- The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated.
- Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted.
- One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or torture.
- Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government.
- Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, torture to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread.
- The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths.
- But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture.
- Other punishment practices include torture, often in front of family members, and execution.
- The Attorney-General says any confession extracted using torture would not be admissible in an Australian court.
- The writer insists he knew nothing about the unjust imprisonment and torture practiced by the Party.
- But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees.
- The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said.
- When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit.
- The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations.
- Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
- The event simply has had no closure, partly because for 40 years mention of it was forbidden, on pain of torture and jail.
- In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony.
- A practice of torture by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State.
- There have been reports that security forces torture persons in ‘ghost houses’.
- Its officers wrote out false confessions and used torture to force suspects to sign them.
Synonyms
infliction of pain, abuse, torment
ill treatment, maltreatment, harsh treatment, punishment, persecution
1. 1.1 Great physical or mental suffering.
  （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦
  the torture I've gone through because of loving you so
  我因如此爱你而遭受的折磨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates.
  Every group in this country has suffered torture at police hands.
  She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental torture.
  Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture.
  I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants.
  Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again.
  It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment.
  Red Lights concerns an arguing couple who split up during a road trip, which leads to a horrific 24 hours wherein the alcoholic protagonist suffers all kinds of torture trying to get back to his wife.
  Imagine being in his situation for a second, then imagine it being for a week that he has been subjected to this ordeal, imagine the mental torture he is suffering at the moment.
  And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental torture.
  She looked over to who was suffering the horrible torture.
  Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture.
  They are going through mental and physical torture.
  A party and a cause also for which countless brave men and women have sacrificed so much, including the hundreds who have laid down their lives and many more who suffered torture and abuse.
  This tiny fraction of those who suffer torture still numbers many thousands each year.
  The thread that runs through all of them is not just the crazed demand for a dowry by the victim's husband and his family, but the lack of support she got from her own parents as she suffered torture in silence.
  Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted.
  But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches.
  As to the atheous Anglicans, he calls on God to pitch them into the darkest, deepest gulf of Hell to suffer torture eternally.
  ‘We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered,’ she said.
  Synonyms
  torment, agony, suffering, pain
  anguish, misery, distress, heartbreak, affliction, trauma, wretchedness, woe
  hell, purgatory
  rare excruciation
2. 1.2 A cause of great physical or mental suffering.
  （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦
  dances were absolute torture because I was so small
  因为我个子太矮，所以跳舞成了件极痛苦的事。
  Synonyms
  ordeal, horror, torment, trial

verbˈtɔːtʃəˈtɔrtʃər

[with object]

1Inflict severe pain on.
拷打；使痛苦；折磨
most of the victims had been brutally tortured
绝大多数受害者曾遭受酷刑。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act.
- She poses the question: ‘If everyone could feel everyone else's pain who would torture?’
- I've no doubt you will be the size of a toothpick by the time the camera starts rolling, but you will have had to brutally torture yourself to do it.
- They had both suffered gunshot and stab wounds and appeared to have been tortured.
- The fight against those who torture animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward.
- The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition.
- They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately.
- There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law.
- He is reported to have been physically and mentally tortured and has not been heard of since May.
- Sexually molesting children or torturing political prisoners is not wrong because some Bible passage says so.
- He believed that he would be imprisoned, tortured or possibly executed.
- Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone.
- If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes.
- He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others.
- Imprisoning and torturing people for that is resurrecting the ‘crime’ of lese majeste.
- We know that they have arrested everyone they take to the hospital, taken people to jail and tortured them.
- I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed.
- The Appellant states that he was not asked much about how he was tortured.
- Her husband was arrested and detained for approximately three months during which period he was tortured.
- The IHD state that there is always a high possibility that a person will be tortured in police custody.
Synonyms
inflict pain on, inflict suffering on
torment, ill-treat, abuse, mistreat, maltreat, molest, scourge, wound, put someone on the rack, persecute, punish
informal work over, give someone the works
1. 1.1 Cause great mental suffering to.
  造成精神上的巨大痛苦；使忧虑
  he was tortured by grief
  他极为悲痛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
  Harry is being mentally tortured and starved by his muggle family during the summer holidays.
  He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
  Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time.
  He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair.
  Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more?
  Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol.
  Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
  If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured.
  And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us.
  It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be.
  The site was too much to take in, yet a firm imprint of what was before me was planted firmly into my mind, torturing me for as long as I live.
  He was taking his sweet time, torturing her mentally with the thought of what was going to happen.
  I'm used to holding hearings where people cry, families who are at their wits' end, people whose obsessional behaviour tortures them all day long, and people for whom really the only alternative is suicide.
  So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes?
  She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered.
  She wondered for how long this sound would continue to torture and haunt her mind: she was not mad, but she believed that she soon would be.
  I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to torture my mind with.
  If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental torture a place where you wish you weren't born.
  He left me alive to torture me, to keep his haunting words in my mind.
  Synonyms
  torment, afflict, harrow, plague, distress, agonize, cause agony to, cause suffering to, inflict anguish on
  crucify, rack, pain, mortify
  worry, trouble, beset

Derivatives

torturable

adjective

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'distortion, twisting', or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura 'twisting, torment', from Latin torquere 'to twist'.

Rhymes

debaucher, scorcher

Definition of torture in US English:

torture

nounˈtɔrtʃərˈtôrCHər

1The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.
酷刑；刑讯；拷问
Example sentencesExamples
- The Attorney-General says any confession extracted using torture would not be admissible in an Australian court.
- The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths.
- The writer insists he knew nothing about the unjust imprisonment and torture practiced by the Party.
- But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture.
- One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or torture.
- But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees.
- The event simply has had no closure, partly because for 40 years mention of it was forbidden, on pain of torture and jail.
- The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated.
- Other punishment practices include torture, often in front of family members, and execution.
- Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government.
- Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
- The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said.
- There have been reports that security forces torture persons in ‘ghost houses’.
- Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, torture to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread.
- Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted.
- The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations.
- When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit.
- Its officers wrote out false confessions and used torture to force suspects to sign them.
- A practice of torture by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State.
- In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony.
Synonyms
infliction of pain, abuse, torment
1. 1.1 Great physical or mental suffering or anxiety.
  （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦
  the torture I've gone through because of loving you so
  我因如此爱你而遭受的折磨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The thread that runs through all of them is not just the crazed demand for a dowry by the victim's husband and his family, but the lack of support she got from her own parents as she suffered torture in silence.
  But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches.
  Red Lights concerns an arguing couple who split up during a road trip, which leads to a horrific 24 hours wherein the alcoholic protagonist suffers all kinds of torture trying to get back to his wife.
  This tiny fraction of those who suffer torture still numbers many thousands each year.
  Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again.
  Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted.
  They are going through mental and physical torture.
  As to the atheous Anglicans, he calls on God to pitch them into the darkest, deepest gulf of Hell to suffer torture eternally.
  And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental torture.
  She looked over to who was suffering the horrible torture.
  Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture.
  It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment.
  The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates.
  I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants.
  Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture.
  She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental torture.
  Imagine being in his situation for a second, then imagine it being for a week that he has been subjected to this ordeal, imagine the mental torture he is suffering at the moment.
  ‘We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered,’ she said.
  A party and a cause also for which countless brave men and women have sacrificed so much, including the hundreds who have laid down their lives and many more who suffered torture and abuse.
  Every group in this country has suffered torture at police hands.
  Synonyms
  torment, agony, suffering, pain
2. 1.2 A cause of suffering or anxiety.
  （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦
  dances were absolute torture because I was so small
  因为我个子太矮，所以跳舞成了件极痛苦的事。
  Synonyms
  ordeal, horror, torment, trial

verbˈtɔrtʃərˈtôrCHər

[with object]

1Inflict severe pain on.
拷打；使痛苦；折磨
most of the victims had been brutally tortured
绝大多数受害者曾遭受酷刑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Appellant states that he was not asked much about how he was tortured.
- He believed that he would be imprisoned, tortured or possibly executed.
- I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed.
- They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately.
- He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others.
- She poses the question: ‘If everyone could feel everyone else's pain who would torture?’
- I've no doubt you will be the size of a toothpick by the time the camera starts rolling, but you will have had to brutally torture yourself to do it.
- They had both suffered gunshot and stab wounds and appeared to have been tortured.
- Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone.
- The IHD state that there is always a high possibility that a person will be tortured in police custody.
- We know that they have arrested everyone they take to the hospital, taken people to jail and tortured them.
- There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law.
- He is reported to have been physically and mentally tortured and has not been heard of since May.
- If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes.
- The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition.
- The fight against those who torture animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward.
- Her husband was arrested and detained for approximately three months during which period he was tortured.
- If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act.
- Imprisoning and torturing people for that is resurrecting the ‘crime’ of lese majeste.
- Sexually molesting children or torturing political prisoners is not wrong because some Bible passage says so.
Synonyms
inflict pain on, inflict suffering on
1. 1.1 Cause great mental suffering or anxiety to.
  （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦
  he was tortured by grief
  他极为悲痛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair.
  If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured.
  Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more?
  I'm used to holding hearings where people cry, families who are at their wits' end, people whose obsessional behaviour tortures them all day long, and people for whom really the only alternative is suicide.
  Harry is being mentally tortured and starved by his muggle family during the summer holidays.
  He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
  Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time.
  The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
  I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to torture my mind with.
  He was taking his sweet time, torturing her mentally with the thought of what was going to happen.
  And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us.
  She wondered for how long this sound would continue to torture and haunt her mind: she was not mad, but she believed that she soon would be.
  She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered.
  It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be.
  Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
  The site was too much to take in, yet a firm imprint of what was before me was planted firmly into my mind, torturing me for as long as I live.
  So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes?
  He left me alive to torture me, to keep his haunting words in my mind.
  If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental torture a place where you wish you weren't born.
  Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol.
  Synonyms
  torment, afflict, harrow, plague, distress, agonize, cause agony to, cause suffering to, inflict anguish on

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘distortion, twisting’, or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura ‘twisting, torment’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist’.

词汇	torture
释义	Definition of torture in English: torture noun ˈtɔːtʃəˈtɔrtʃər mass noun 1The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something. 酷刑；刑讯；拷问 the torture of political prisoners confessions extracted under torture as modifier a torture chamber Example sentencesExamples The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated. Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted. One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or torture. Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government. Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, torture to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread. The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths. But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture. Other punishment practices include torture, often in front of family members, and execution. The Attorney-General says any confession extracted using torture would not be admissible in an Australian court. The writer insists he knew nothing about the unjust imprisonment and torture practiced by the Party. But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees. The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said. When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit. The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations. Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees. The event simply has had no closure, partly because for 40 years mention of it was forbidden, on pain of torture and jail. In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony. A practice of torture by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State. There have been reports that security forces torture persons in ‘ghost houses’. Its officers wrote out false confessions and used torture to force suspects to sign them. Synonyms infliction of pain, abuse, torment ill treatment, maltreatment, harsh treatment, punishment, persecution 1.1 Great physical or mental suffering. （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦 the torture I've gone through because of loving you so 我因如此爱你而遭受的折磨。 Example sentencesExamples The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates. Every group in this country has suffered torture at police hands. She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental torture. Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture. I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants. Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again. It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment. Red Lights concerns an arguing couple who split up during a road trip, which leads to a horrific 24 hours wherein the alcoholic protagonist suffers all kinds of torture trying to get back to his wife. Imagine being in his situation for a second, then imagine it being for a week that he has been subjected to this ordeal, imagine the mental torture he is suffering at the moment. And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental torture. She looked over to who was suffering the horrible torture. Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture. They are going through mental and physical torture. A party and a cause also for which countless brave men and women have sacrificed so much, including the hundreds who have laid down their lives and many more who suffered torture and abuse. This tiny fraction of those who suffer torture still numbers many thousands each year. The thread that runs through all of them is not just the crazed demand for a dowry by the victim's husband and his family, but the lack of support she got from her own parents as she suffered torture in silence. Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted. But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches. As to the atheous Anglicans, he calls on God to pitch them into the darkest, deepest gulf of Hell to suffer torture eternally. ‘We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered,’ she said. Synonyms torment, agony, suffering, pain anguish, misery, distress, heartbreak, affliction, trauma, wretchedness, woe hell, purgatory rare excruciation 1.2 A cause of great physical or mental suffering. （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦 dances were absolute torture because I was so small 因为我个子太矮，所以跳舞成了件极痛苦的事。 Synonyms ordeal, horror, torment, trial verbˈtɔːtʃəˈtɔrtʃər [with object] 1Inflict severe pain on. 拷打；使痛苦；折磨 most of the victims had been brutally tortured 绝大多数受害者曾遭受酷刑。 Example sentencesExamples If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act. She poses the question: ‘If everyone could feel everyone else's pain who would torture?’ I've no doubt you will be the size of a toothpick by the time the camera starts rolling, but you will have had to brutally torture yourself to do it. They had both suffered gunshot and stab wounds and appeared to have been tortured. The fight against those who torture animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward. The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition. They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately. There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law. He is reported to have been physically and mentally tortured and has not been heard of since May. Sexually molesting children or torturing political prisoners is not wrong because some Bible passage says so. He believed that he would be imprisoned, tortured or possibly executed. Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone. If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes. He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others. Imprisoning and torturing people for that is resurrecting the ‘crime’ of lese majeste. We know that they have arrested everyone they take to the hospital, taken people to jail and tortured them. I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed. The Appellant states that he was not asked much about how he was tortured. Her husband was arrested and detained for approximately three months during which period he was tortured. The IHD state that there is always a high possibility that a person will be tortured in police custody. Synonyms inflict pain on, inflict suffering on torment, ill-treat, abuse, mistreat, maltreat, molest, scourge, wound, put someone on the rack, persecute, punish informal work over, give someone the works 1.1 Cause great mental suffering to. 造成精神上的巨大痛苦；使忧虑 he was tortured by grief 他极为悲痛。 Example sentencesExamples The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me. Harry is being mentally tortured and starved by his muggle family during the summer holidays. He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober. Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time. He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair. Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more? Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol. Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever? If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured. And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us. It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be. The site was too much to take in, yet a firm imprint of what was before me was planted firmly into my mind, torturing me for as long as I live. He was taking his sweet time, torturing her mentally with the thought of what was going to happen. I'm used to holding hearings where people cry, families who are at their wits' end, people whose obsessional behaviour tortures them all day long, and people for whom really the only alternative is suicide. So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes? She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered. She wondered for how long this sound would continue to torture and haunt her mind: she was not mad, but she believed that she soon would be. I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to torture my mind with. If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental torture a place where you wish you weren't born. He left me alive to torture me, to keep his haunting words in my mind. Synonyms torment, afflict, harrow, plague, distress, agonize, cause agony to, cause suffering to, inflict anguish on crucify, rack, pain, mortify worry, trouble, beset Derivatives torturable adjective Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'distortion, twisting', or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura 'twisting, torment', from Latin torquere 'to twist'. Rhymes debaucher, scorcher Definition of torture in US English: torture nounˈtɔrtʃərˈtôrCHər 1The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. 酷刑；刑讯；拷问 Example sentencesExamples The Attorney-General says any confession extracted using torture would not be admissible in an Australian court. The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths. The writer insists he knew nothing about the unjust imprisonment and torture practiced by the Party. But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture. One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or torture. But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees. The event simply has had no closure, partly because for 40 years mention of it was forbidden, on pain of torture and jail. The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated. Other punishment practices include torture, often in front of family members, and execution. Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government. Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees. The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said. There have been reports that security forces torture persons in ‘ghost houses’. Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, torture to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread. Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted. The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations. When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit. Its officers wrote out false confessions and used torture to force suspects to sign them. A practice of torture by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State. In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony. Synonyms infliction of pain, abuse, torment 1.1 Great physical or mental suffering or anxiety. （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦 the torture I've gone through because of loving you so 我因如此爱你而遭受的折磨。 Example sentencesExamples The thread that runs through all of them is not just the crazed demand for a dowry by the victim's husband and his family, but the lack of support she got from her own parents as she suffered torture in silence. But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches. Red Lights concerns an arguing couple who split up during a road trip, which leads to a horrific 24 hours wherein the alcoholic protagonist suffers all kinds of torture trying to get back to his wife. This tiny fraction of those who suffer torture still numbers many thousands each year. Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again. Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted. They are going through mental and physical torture. As to the atheous Anglicans, he calls on God to pitch them into the darkest, deepest gulf of Hell to suffer torture eternally. And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental torture. She looked over to who was suffering the horrible torture. Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture. It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment. The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates. I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants. Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture. She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental torture. Imagine being in his situation for a second, then imagine it being for a week that he has been subjected to this ordeal, imagine the mental torture he is suffering at the moment. ‘We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered,’ she said. A party and a cause also for which countless brave men and women have sacrificed so much, including the hundreds who have laid down their lives and many more who suffered torture and abuse. Every group in this country has suffered torture at police hands. Synonyms torment, agony, suffering, pain 1.2 A cause of suffering or anxiety. （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦 dances were absolute torture because I was so small 因为我个子太矮，所以跳舞成了件极痛苦的事。 Synonyms ordeal, horror, torment, trial verbˈtɔrtʃərˈtôrCHər [with object] 1Inflict severe pain on. 拷打；使痛苦；折磨 most of the victims had been brutally tortured 绝大多数受害者曾遭受酷刑。 Example sentencesExamples The Appellant states that he was not asked much about how he was tortured. He believed that he would be imprisoned, tortured or possibly executed. I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed. They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately. He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others. She poses the question: ‘If everyone could feel everyone else's pain who would torture?’ I've no doubt you will be the size of a toothpick by the time the camera starts rolling, but you will have had to brutally torture yourself to do it. They had both suffered gunshot and stab wounds and appeared to have been tortured. Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone. The IHD state that there is always a high possibility that a person will be tortured in police custody. We know that they have arrested everyone they take to the hospital, taken people to jail and tortured them. There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law. He is reported to have been physically and mentally tortured and has not been heard of since May. If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes. The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition. The fight against those who torture animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward. Her husband was arrested and detained for approximately three months during which period he was tortured. If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act. Imprisoning and torturing people for that is resurrecting the ‘crime’ of lese majeste. Sexually molesting children or torturing political prisoners is not wrong because some Bible passage says so. Synonyms inflict pain on, inflict suffering on 1.1 Cause great mental suffering or anxiety to. （肉体或精神上的）折磨；忧虑；痛苦 he was tortured by grief 他极为悲痛。 Example sentencesExamples He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair. If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured. Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more? I'm used to holding hearings where people cry, families who are at their wits' end, people whose obsessional behaviour tortures them all day long, and people for whom really the only alternative is suicide. Harry is being mentally tortured and starved by his muggle family during the summer holidays. He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober. Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time. The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me. I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to torture my mind with. He was taking his sweet time, torturing her mentally with the thought of what was going to happen. And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us. She wondered for how long this sound would continue to torture and haunt her mind: she was not mad, but she believed that she soon would be. She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered. It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be. Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever? The site was too much to take in, yet a firm imprint of what was before me was planted firmly into my mind, torturing me for as long as I live. So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes? He left me alive to torture me, to keep his haunting words in my mind. If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental torture a place where you wish you weren't born. Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol. Synonyms torment, afflict, harrow, plague, distress, agonize, cause agony to, cause suffering to, inflict anguish on Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘distortion, twisting’, or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura ‘twisting, torment’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
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