[tawr-cher] 
noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.| 1. | the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. |
| 2. | a method of inflicting such pain. |
| 3. | Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone. |
| 4. | extreme anguish of body or mind; agony. |
| 5. | a cause of severe pain or anguish. |
| 6. | to subject to torture. |
| 7. | to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me. |
| 8. | to force or extort by torture: We'll torture the truth from his lips! |
| 9. | to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms. |
| 10. | to distort or pervert (language, meaning, etc.). |
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