tortures
Definitions
Noun
- Extreme mental distress
- Unbearable physical pain
- Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 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
Verb
- Torment emotionally or mentally
- Subject to torture
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| 1 | structures | 2 | 31 |
| 2 | tours | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | tortured | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | textures | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | torture | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | overtures | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | tortuous | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | torrents | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | strictures | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | torturers | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | torturer | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | torres | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | torturous | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | torrens | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | totes | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | torts | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | torte | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | torre | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | tourneys | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | ruptures | 2 | 0 |
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Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 64
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
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📰 This Word in the News:
Former Syrian Prison Boss Convicted on Immigration Fraud, Torture Charges
Mar 23, 2026 Center for Immigration Studies
Mar 23, 2026 Center for Immigration Studies
Syria: Alarming Evidence that Torture Persists and the Machinery of Violence Is Being Rebuilt after Assad (June 2025–June 2026)
Aug 13, 2026 Syrians for Truth and Justice
Aug 13, 2026 Syrians for Truth and Justice
Mother, 2 others charged with murder in ‘torture’ death of 7-year-old found in closet
Aug 7, 2026 FOX19 | Cincinnati
Aug 7, 2026 FOX19 | Cincinnati
'Catastrophic injuries': Man tortures his 2-year-old dog, forcing euthanasia: police
May 30, 2026 kmph.com
May 30, 2026 kmph.com
Tortures of Ukrainian POWs and illegally detained civilians in Russian captivity: side event on what the CoE can do to stop it
Sep 21, 2026 Центр прав людини ZMINA
Sep 21, 2026 Центр прав людини ZMINA

