及物动词
名词
1. 拷打;拷问;虐待
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.
2. 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
3. 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
1. 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
e.g. it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Synonym: torturing
2. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonym: distortionoverrefinementstrainingtwisting
3. intense feelings of suffering
acute mental or physical pain
e.g. an agony of doubt
the torments of the damned
4. extreme mental distress
5. unbearable physical pain
Synonym: torment