LekhoriLekhoriThe infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
People confess to anything under torture.
Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!
From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical ...
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