Torture: alternatives and connections

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

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The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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of Hurt

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.

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of Suffer

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of Wind

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A blow with a stick or cudgel.

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Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

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of Burn

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The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.

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The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

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See Picket.

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Same as Arrack.

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A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope,…

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One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.

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To make a martyr of.

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Same as Arrack.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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Same as Arrack.

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Same as Arrack.

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of Suffer

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of Suffer

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An engine for casting stones.

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An engine for casting stones.

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Violent contest or striving.

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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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Excessive refinement.

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Same as Arrack.

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of Strain

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An engine for casting stones.

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of Twist

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