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- DictionaryTor·ture/ˈtôrCHər/
noun
- 1. the action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something: "the torture of political prisoners"
verb
- 1. inflict severe pain or suffering on: "most of the victims had been brutally tortured"
the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to a person or animal: Half of the prisoners died after torture and starvation. He revealed the secret under torture. C1 [ C or U ] informal. a very unpleasant experience:
noun. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. a method of inflicting such pain. Often tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone. extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
Torture is when somebody in an official capacity inflicts severe mental or physical pain or suffering on somebody else for a specific purpose. Sometimes authorities torture a person to extract a confession for a crime, or to get information from them. Sometimes torture is simply used as a punishment that spreads fear in society.
TORTURE meaning: 1 : the act of causing severe physical pain as a form of punishment or as a way to force someone to do or say something; 2 : something that causes mental or physical suffering a very painful or unpleasant experience.
Feb 7, 2006 · So torture is: (a) the intentional infliction of extreme physical suffering on some non-consenting, defenceless person, and; (b) the intentional, substantial curtailment of the exercise of the person’s autonomy (achieved by means of (a)). Is this now an adequate definition of torture? Perhaps not.
5 days ago · [VERB noun] Synonyms: torment, abuse, persecute, afflict More Synonyms of torture. Torture is also a noun . ...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. 2. verb.
For the purpose of this Declaration, torture is defined as the deliberate, systematic or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of any authority, to force another person to yield information, to make a confession, or for any other reason.
