torture (noun)
1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting]
5: the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torturing]
torture
(verb)
1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, excruciate, rack]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: excruciate, torment]