torture | Amarkosh

Meaning of word torture from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

torture verb

Meaning : Torment emotionally or mentally.

Synonyms : excruciate, rack, torment

Meaning : Subject to torture.

Example : The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible.

Synonyms : excruciate, torment

torture noun

Meaning : Extreme mental distress.

Synonyms : anguish, torment

Meaning : Unbearable physical pain.

Synonyms : torment

Meaning : Intense feelings of suffering. Acute mental or physical pain.

Example : An agony of doubt.
The torments of the damned.

Synonyms : agony, torment

Meaning : The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

Synonyms : distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

Meaning : 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.

Example : It required unnatural torturing to extract a confession.

Synonyms : torturing

Install App

चर्चित शब्द

stethoscope (noun)
A medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body.

facelift (noun)
Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face. An incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised.

dispose (verb)
Give, sell, or transfer to another.

pragmatical (adjective)
Of or concerning the theory of pragmatism.

assertion (noun)
A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary).

fruitfully (adverb)
In a productive way.

cut short (verb)
Interrupt before its natural or planned end.

demolish (verb)
Destroy completely.

wage increase (noun)
The amount a salary is increased.

millet (noun)
Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.