Torture

['tɔːtʃə] or ['tɔrtʃɚ]

解释:

(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'.

(noun.) unbearable physical pain.

(verb.) subject to torture; 'The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible'.

塞西莉整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

(n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

(n.) The act or process of torturing.

(v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

(v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

(v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

(v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

克拉丽莎校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Anguish, agony, torment, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distress.

v. a. Torment, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to extreme pain.

手打:露西娅

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Agony, anguish, racking, torment

ANT:Ecstasy, rapture, bliss

安东尼编辑

解释:

n. a putting to the rack or severe pain to extort a confession or as a punishment: extreme pain: anguish of body or mind.—v.t. to put to torture or to the rack: to put to extreme pain: to annoy: to vex.—n. Tor′turer.—adv. Tor′turingly in a torturing manner: so as to torment or punish.—adj. Tor′turous causing torture.

手打:斯蒂芬