| word | torture |
|---|---|
| definition | verb If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed. Three members of the group had been tortured to death. They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence. ...alleged cases of torture and murder by the security forces. Many died under torture, others committed suicide. I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared. To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety . He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend. noun If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering . Waiting for the result was torture. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture. Learning–something she had always loved–became a torture. |
| inflections | torturestorturingtortured |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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