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  • torture — 01. Many police forces all over the world use [torture] to get information from suspected criminals. 02. South African activist Steven Biko was [tortured] to death by the police while in jail. 03. It was pure [torture] for Betty to make chocolate …   Grammatical examples in English

  • torture — [[t]tɔ͟ː(r)tʃə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ tortures, torturing, tortured 1) VERB If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information. [be V ed] French police …   English dictionary

  • Torture — Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person,… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture and the United States — Torture in the United States include documented and alleged cases inside the United States and outside the border by government personnel. Note that such incidents are not necessarily the policy of or done with the approval of the United States… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture murder — is a loosely defined term to describe the process used by murderers who kill their victims by slowly torturing them. Fact|date=February 2007 Legal positionOne of the criteria for a judgment of Murder in the first degree in the laws of the state… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture Porn — (deutsch: Folter Porno), seltener auch Torture Horror, ist ein relativ junges Subgenre des Horrorfilms.[1] Merkmal des Torture Porn Films ist, dass Folter, explizite Gewaltdarstellungen, Erniedrigungen und Verstümmelungen nicht wie auch bei… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Torture — Tor ture (t[^o]r t[ u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. {Contort}, {Distort}, {Extort}, {Retort},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Torture Central — Torture Central: E mails From Abu Ghraib is the title of the memoir of Michael Keller, a soldier stationed in Abu Ghraib, Iraq during 2005/2006. It was published on October 29, 2007, and chronicles many events previously unreported in the news… …   Wikipedia

  • was put out of his misery — was delivered from his suffering, died after prolonged torture …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Torture during the Algerian War — The French Armed Forces made a systematic and indiscriminate use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence (1954 62), creating a public controversy which is far from having been stifled today. Although the Algerian National Liberation… …   Wikipedia

  • torture — torturable, adj. torturedly, adv. torturer, n. torturesome, adj. torturingly, adv. /tawr cheuhr/, n., v., tortured, torturing. n. 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or… …   Universalium

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