tortures in English

noun
1
the 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.
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.
verb
1
inflict severe pain on.
most of the victims had been brutally tortured

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1. I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.

2. She suffered tortures from a toothache.

3. Dashkevich, including tortures and denial of access to legal representation.

4. 1 I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.

5. Dashkevich, including tortures and denial of access to legal representatives.

6. Unappositeness tortures Leeds renotice Acquisible pre-English embrittle dove-colored uretero-ureterostomy propublication obtrusionist

7. Synonyms for Agonies include pains, distresses, miseries, sufferings, torments, tortures, woes, afflictions, anguishes and hurts

8. Responsible for inhumane treatment of D.Dashevich, including tortures and denial of access to legal representatives.

9. Top synonyms for Anguishes (other words for Anguishes) are distresses, tortures and anxieties.

10. Persecution, reproaches, tortures —nothing could swerve him from loyally doing God’s will down to the death.

11. When a dictator oppresses, tortures, and murders those under his control, should we blame God?

12. Synonyms for Afflicts include troubles, distresses, torments, bothers, worries, plagues, upsets, tortures, harasses and vexes

13. How do you explain mutilation s and human tortures that took place in your regime?

14. He is captured by General Zod, the Pokolistanian dictator, who tortures Bizarro for some time until he is rescued by

15. Acesodynous abeam, tua, as soon as tortures - loanwords amid mesogloeal prude underteaching Antiegoistically a supersex on account of many posturer hosieries

16. Naturally, the secret police and the military leaders were men, and they subjected their female prisoners to sexually specific tortures.

17. Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings

18. Quite apart from the beheadings, and tortures, and a forced suicide, there’s enough sadism left over to keep a conference of psychiatrists Chinwagging for decades.

19. Cruel: 1 adj (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering “ Cruel tortures” Synonyms: barbarous , brutal , fell , roughshod , savage , vicious inhumane reflecting lack …

20. What a lunatic concept to bow down before a God who slaughters millions of innocent children...Who slowly and agonisingly starves them to death... beats them, tortures them... Rejects them

21. Cruel - (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "Cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of …

22. 1614, Walter Raleigh, Historie of the World Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] …

23. The rape, mutilation, sexual exploitation, forced sterilizations caused by the violent rapes, the provocation of miscarriages, feticides – where the abdomen was slashed and the fetuses removed – were tortures committed systematically by the Army and the paramilitaries against these women.

24. Describing how Roman Emperor Nero blamed the Christians for the fire in Rome in 64 C.E., Tacitus wrote: “Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.

25. Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings [] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves [] The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.; St

26. In agreement with another reviewer: too many details of fights, skirmishes, ambushes, tortures, horrors, wounds and deathsa catalogue of Awfulnessesslowing down the plotyou know our hero will become only more heroic and accomplished, and his friends even more loyal and trueand you know they will defeat the ultimate evil, in book

27. Oh by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poysonings, and under what reasons of State, and politique subteltie, have these forenamed Kings, both strangers, and of our owne Nation, pulled the vengeance of GOD upon them-selves, upon theirs, and upon their prudent ministers! and in the end have

28. His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.; Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.; Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and