torturing

Meanings

Plural: torturings

Noun

• the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
  • "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
• An act of torture

Verb

• torment emotionally or mentally
• subject to torture
• present participle and gerund of torture

Adjective Satellite

• extremely painful

Synonyms

agonising, agonizing, excruciate, excruciating, harrowing, rack, torment, torture, torturesome, torturous

Anagrams of torturing