All torture synonyms
torΒ·ture
T t verb torture
- excrutiate β Misspelling of excruciate.
- draw and quarter β to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- dragoons β Plural form of dragoon.
- martyred β a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- devilled β Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- whacking β large.
- dun β to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- dragoon β (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
- rack β the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
- bully β A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- cut to the quick β done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- mis-shaped β to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- bite one's nails β to chew off the ends of one's fingernails
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- martyr β a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- oppress β to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- buffaloed β any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- martyring β a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- boned β having had the bones removed from it
- gnarl β a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- martyrize β to make a martyr of: The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
noun torture
- insensitiveness β Quality of being insensitive.
- bad time β inopportune moment
- hardheartedness β The state of being hardhearted.
- martyrdom β the condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
- broken heart β If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- ordeal β any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- wound β the act of winding.
- abaddon β the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- anguish β Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- heartlessness β The characteristic of being heartless.
- disconsolateness β (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
- misery β wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- agony β Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- calvary β a representation of Christ's crucifixion, usually sculptured and in the open air
- heartsickness β The condition of being heartsick.
- hades β Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- mercilessness β without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- gehenna β the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where propitiatory sacrifices were made to Moloch. II Kings 23:10.
- lower world β Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
- infelicity β the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
- bs β BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.