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Noun Synset: 100421437

Words: torture, torturing

Gloss: 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"

hypernym 100420477 - persecution
derivationally related 200071178 - excruciate, torment, torture
derivationally related 200071178 - excruciate, torment, torture
hyponym 100422114 - bastinado, falanga
hyponym 100422261 - boot
hyponym 100422391 - burning
hyponym 100422551 - crucifixion, excruciation
hyponym 100422719 - genital_torture
hyponym 100422834 - judicial_torture
hyponym 100423028 - kia_quen
hyponym 100423222 - kittee
hyponym 100423423 - nail_pulling, nail_removal
hyponym 100423563 - picket, piquet
hyponym 100423769 - prolonged_interrogation
hyponym 100423916 - rack
hyponym 100424034 - sensory_deprivation
hyponym 100424186 - sleep_deprivation
hyponym 100424324 - strapado, strappado
hyponym 101163586 - electric_shock
hyponym 107433510 - dismemberment, taking_apart

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